Marc Marquez has become the 2025 MotoGP champion, which is also his seventh time winning the championship title.
Marc finished the main race at the Motegi circuit in Japan in second place behind his factory Ducati teammate, Franceso “Pecco” Bagnaia. They also finished the Sprint race on Saturday in the same positions.
However, Marc only needed to finish the race with a points tally exceeding that of his brother Alex Marquez, who rides for the Gresini Ducati team, to become champion. In the end, Marc has collected a total of 541 points so far, 201 points ahead of Alex who is in second place overall. Alex can no longer catch Marc, even though there are still five rounds remaining.
Marc’s championship means it was a 2,184-day wait for him to become world champion again. The last time he became champion was in 2019, before he broke his right arm in 2020. After that, he underwent four surgeries to treat it, and also suffered more than 100 crashes on the track while struggling with his bike when he wasn’t 100% recovered.
This race win in Japan is the second this year for Bagnaia, after he struggled throughout the season to adapt himself to the new Ducati GP25 bike. He finally received advice on his bike setup from former Ducati rider and also former world champion, Casey Stoner, thus enabling him to win both races in this round.
