Marc Marquez is now just one title short of matching Giacomo Agostini’s record of eight premier class championships, after wrapping up the 2025 season with Ducati.
The 32-year-old clinched the title in September with five rounds still to go, drawing level with Valentino Rossi’s seven championships. In his debut season with Ducati, Marquez looked a cut above the rest.
Before a shoulder injury in Indonesia brought his year to an early close, Marquez had racked up 11 Grand Prix wins and 14 Sprint Race victories, along with eight poles and 32 podium finishes. Even after sitting out the last three rounds, he remains 100 points clear at the top of the standings.
That tally puts him ahead of all others in the MotoGP era. While Agostini won his titles in the old 500cc days and Rossi claimed his first championship during that final season before the switch, Marquez picked up six titles for Honda between 2013 and 2019 before adding another this year.
Marc Marquez’s MotoGP title win proves he’s back to his best after 2020 injury
Marquez wrapped up the 2025 MotoGP title at Motegi, leading his brother Alex by a massive 201 points with five rounds still to go. It’s the earliest a rider has clinched the championship by round, though Rossi’s 2002 title remains the quickest by season percentage at 75%.
“Looking back to 2019, the year before his big injury, that was such a strong year for him. I would say that he matched that this year, and so we would have to say that Marc is now back to his absolute best,” Hodgson told TNT Sports.
“He answered the question that was being asked this season, which was not whether he would win again after his injury, but whether he could match his previous standards. And he really has.
“From that moment in 2020 to this season, we needed to find out if the sport had fundamentally changed if the other younger riders coming through had found something new.
“We needed to know if the sport had changed too much for Marc and if it did [then] no one would have complained. The answer is no. His level is still far better than anyone else.”
Marc Marquez’s 2025 season dominance also matched his 2019 title win with Honda
Back in 2019, Marc Marquez had already shown what he was capable of. He finished the season 151 points clear of Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso and wrapped up his sixth premier class crown without the addition of sprint races, which didn’t come into play until 2023.
He won 12 out of the 19 Grands Prix that year, stood on the podium in all but one race, and picked up ten pole positions along the way. The only time he didn’t make it to the rostrum was after a crash at COTA, which ended up being his only DNF and sole result outside of second place.
This year with Ducati, even though he didn’t match that exact consistency, his form from round eight through round fourteen was just as impressive. During that stretch, Marquez put together seven straight doubles – winning both the main race and sprint event each weekend.
Across the entire campaign with Ducati, Marquez tallied ten Grand Prix and Sprint Race doubles. From Le Mans in round six until Japan in round seventeen, he never missed a main race podium. In sprints, he kept an unbroken run until a crash at Misano broke it late in the year.
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