MOTO GP

Marc Márquez is a seven-time champion!

Ducati rider Marc Marquez of Spain has won the MotoGP world championship title after finishing second in the Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi today.

Marc Marquez secured the title with five races remaining in the MotoGP season, as he leads the overall standings with 541 points, while his younger brother Alex Marquez of Gresini Racing is in second place with 340.

Marc Marquez won his seventh world championship title in the Royal Class and his ninth in all categories. The Ducati rider equaled the number of MotoGP titles won with Italy's Valentino Rossi.

Marc Márquez (Ducati Lenovo Team) is the 2025 MotoGP world champion. After finishing second at the Motul Grand Prix of Japan, the Spanish rider won his seventh title in the category, with five races remaining in the season.

The race was won by his teammate, Italian Francesco Bagnaia. With the result, Marc reached 541 points, compared to 340 for his brother Álex Márquez, his closest rival, who finished the race in sixth place and can no longer catch him in the standings.

His dominance was total: 11 wins and 15 podiums this season. The Spanish rider is champion again 2,184 days after his last victory, in one of the greatest comebacks in the sport.

After winning the MotoGP World Championship as a rookie in 2013, Márquez went on to win six championships in the top motorcycle racing category in seven years, all with Honda—2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.

But the dynasty was cut short in 2020, when, returning from a season postponed by the pandemic, he suffered a fractured right arm in the Jerez de la Frontera race.

Three teams, two manufacturers, multiple surgeries, double vision, a shoulder injury, another in his hand. Months away. Total dedication to an operation that saved his career. After a true ordeal, Marc Márquez returns to the top step of the podium, becoming a seven-time MotoGP world champion.

At 32, Márquez equaled Valentino Rossi's record of seven titles and is now one trophy away from reaching the eight victories of Giacomo Agostini, the Italian who dominated MotoGP in the 1960s and 1970s.

"I don't want to remember what I went through, I just want to enjoy the moment. It was super difficult, but now I'm at peace with myself. I made a mistake in my career by coming back too soon. I fought, fought, and won again. Now I'm at peace," said the Spanish legend after another title.

Returning from hell...Never before had anyone "disappeared" from the elite level at the age of 26, missed an entire season, and then spent three more seasons in and out of surgery before returning to triumph.

Yet Márquez believed he could do it, and Ducati followed his dream, giving him the best bike available today. The result was a burst of victories—11 in the first 16 races of the season, seven consecutive between Aragón and Hungary, with the championship's first match point in Japan, six races before the end of the year.

At Motegi, a circuit where he had already celebrated three titles, Márquez completed the greatest comeback in the history of the sport, marking the return of a champion who fell into the abyss and rose from the depths to win his seventh MotoGP title.

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