Marc Marquez will spend the rest of the 2025 MotoGP season with one eye focused on the 2026 season.
After claiming his seventh MotoGP World Championship last time out at the Japanese Grand Prix, Marc Marquez can compete in the last five rounds of the season with less pressure.
The nine-time Grand Prix Champion will now spend the rest of the 2025 season with one eye on the 2026 season, after securing his first title in six years.
"Yeah, this weekend we start already the work for 2026," Marquez said ahead of the Indonesian Grand Prix.
"We need to retry some things, try to play a bit with the setup, try to play with the different things that are available and try to start to work for 2026.
"A long time ago, I was winning and there remained some races, it was like I wanted to arrive to the next one, attack and win everything.
"But right now it's like I suffered such a lot of pressure during all the seasons that I just want to enjoy it.
"Let's see, the first target is try not to do stupid mistakes because when you achieve your main target, the adrenaline comes down and then sometimes you don't have the same concentration."
Marquez has the possibility of breaking his record of 13 Grand Prix wins in a season. The Spaniard is currently sitting on 11 wins, and knows it is possible to break his own record.
"Now I'm on eleven? Yeah, we can, because I think about Phillip Island and Valencia," he stated.
"Those two circuits [are good for me], but let's see because Mandalika, Malaysia and Portimao are not the best ones on the calendar for me, but I can defend.
"But as I said, I don’t want to put pressure on myself."