{"id":237,"date":"2026-07-23T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/?p=237"},"modified":"2026-07-23T12:56:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:56:35","slug":"aprilia-sees-marc-marquez-favorite-hints-championship-wont-be-decided-until-the-final-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/motogp\/aprilia-sees-marc-marquez-favorite-hints-championship-wont-be-decided-until-the-final-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Aprilia sees Marc M\u00e1rquez as favorite, but hints \u201cchampionship won’t be decided until the final race\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reigning world champion M\u00e1rquez once trailed the leader by a massive 102 points, but staged a dramatic comeback to head into the summer break third in the Riders’ Standings, sitting just 18 points adrift of championship leader Jorge Mart\u00edn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs I’ve been saying since day one, we don’t look at the standings, and even less so right now,\u201d Rivola stated during an interview with Italian broadcaster Sky Sports<\/em>. \u201cWe know we have extremely strong riders across both our factory and satellite setups. We know the bike is highly competitive, so I’ve always felt this championship would be decided only in the final race,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt’s fantastic to be right in the thick of this battle, and it’s incredible to be part of an all-Italian title fight of this caliber,\u201d he noted. \u201cLike I said, I believe we’ll be fighting all the way to the final round.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Massimo Rivola placed the favorite status square on Marc M\u00e1rquez (Photo: Aprilia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Despite pointing to another rider as the odds-on favorite, Rivola promised that Aprilia has no intention of backing down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe know there’s a guy named Marc M\u00e1rquez who clearly holds the upper hand in every prediction,\u201d he pointed out. \u201cHe is the favorite, but we will never give up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MotoGP now enters its summer break before returning to action August 7\u20139 for the British Grand Prix, Round 12 of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aprilia CEO Massimo Rivola was quick to push the 2026 MotoGP championship favorite status back toward the Ducati garage. Despite recognizing the raw speed of his riders and the RS-GP, the executive labeled Marc M\u00e1rquez as the prime title candidate this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1020309356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"42wp_featured_image_caption":"Aprilia CEO labels Marc M\u00e1rquez as the favorite for the 2026 MotoGP title","42wp_featured_image_credits":"Ducati","42wp_featured_video":"","42wp_featured_image_hidden":false,"42wp_authors_list":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[53,104],"42wp_author":[36],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motogp","tag-aprilia","tag-marc-marquez","42wp_author-juliana-tesser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1020309356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"42wp_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandepremio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/42wp_author?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}