Marc Márquez is a Spanish eight-time Grand Prix
world champion - six of which are in the premier
MotoGP class. Márquez has raced for
Honda's
factory team since his MotoGP debut in 2013. Nicknamed the "Ant of Cervera", he is one of four riders to have won world championship titles in three different categories, after
Mike Hailwood,
Phil Read and
Valentino Rossi.[1]
Márquez won the
2010125cc World Championship, the
2012Moto2 World Championship, and the
2013,
2014,
2016,
2017,
2018 and
2019MotoGP World Championships. Márquez became the first rider since
Kenny Roberts in
1978 to accomplish the premier class title in his first season, and the youngest to win the title overall. In 2014 he defended his title, winning the championship with three rounds to spare, during which he won ten races in a row. Márquez equalled the all-time Grand Prix record for pole positions at the age of 23 in
2016.[2] Márquez secured the 2016 title with three rounds to spare at
Motegi, before sealing the title at
Valencia in 2017. He also secured the 2018 title with three rounds to spare at
Motegi again. In 2019 he secured the title with four rounds to spare at
Buriram.
His 84 Grand Prix victories are the fourth highest of all time. His most successful circuit is
Sachsenring where he has won eleven times. Márquez's largest margin of victory was at the
2010 German Grand Prix, and the smallest margin of victory was at the
2010 Italian Grand Prix when he beat
Nicolás Terol by 0.039 seconds in the race.
Wins
Key:
No. – Victory number.
Race – Motorcycle Grand Prix career race start number.