MOTO GP

Marc Márquez returns to the asphalt with a Ducati Panigale V2 at the Aspar circuit

95 days after the accident at the Indonesian Grand Prix, which caused him to miss the entire final stretch of the 2025 MotoGP World Championship season - a week after winning the title - the Spaniard Marc Márquez returned to training with an asphalt bike.

Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez has completed his first laps on asphalt since suffering shoulder injuries at last October’s Indonesian Grand Prix.

The Spaniard required surgery after being taken down by Marco Bezzecchi at Mandalika and has since followed a carefully managed recovery programme.

That progression has seen Marquez move from mountain biking to dirt track, motocross and now back onto tarmac.

“Back on the bike and getting the feeling back ❤️,” Marquez wrote on social media.

Nine-time world champion Marquez was riding a Ducati Panigale V2 in cold conditions at the Aspar Circuit in Valencia, on the same day that Fermin Aldeguer suffered a fractured femur.

Ducati test rider Michele Pirro was also present, pictured with Marquez and former triple MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo, whom Pirro worked with at Ducati in 2017 and 2018.

Lorenzo is now working with Maverick Vinales, who has also been training at the Aspar facility.

Track action continues on Friday, when Marc’s younger brother and reigning MotoGP title runner-up Alex Marquez is expected to join the action.

Gresini is yet to confirm the predicted recovery time for Alex's team-mate Aldeguer, but the season-opening Sepang test is less than a month away, on February 3-5.

The Malaysian event will see Marc Marquez's first MotoGP laps since his October 5 accident with Bezzecchi.

The bike he used most was the Ducati Panigale V2 MM93, the special edition presented last November (along with Pecco Bagnaia's FB63); although the Italian brand confirmed that he also rode the exclusive Ducati Panigale V4 Márquez 2025 World Champion Replica, the special edition in honor of his world title.

It was at the Aspar Circuit, located in the Valencian city of Guadassuar, where he spent two days sharing the track with some other riders, including Fermín Aldeguer, from Murcia, who fractured his femur yesterday.

Also present were his brother Álex Márquez, the Colombian David Alonso and his protégé Máximo Quiles, as well as important members of Ducati, such as Davide Tardozzi and test rider Michele Pirro, with whom he swapped bikes, creating an unusual image: the number 93 wearing the number 1.

"First outing of 2026," wrote Marc Márquez on his social media, after being seen training for the first time on December 22, 2025, this time practicing off-road with a Ducati Desmo 450MX at the Alcarrás Circuit in Lleida.

Little by little, the five-time world champion is regaining his form for the official pre-season tests of the 2026 MotoGP World Championship, which begin at the Sepang International Circuit, from February 3 to 5. That is, in almost a month. A few days earlier, on January 20th, the Ducati Lenovo team will be presented.

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