Marc Marquez is a modern-day legend of MotoGP and is on course to level Valentino Rossi for most titles in 2025.
The Spaniard has been in incredible form this season, and leads the title race by 120 points at the summer break. Joining Ducati was an inspired decision.
Marquez has taken to the Italian manufacturer like a duck to water and has won 19 of the 24 races on offer.
There’s an air of inevitability about him winning a seventh MotoGP title, barring any dramatic twists or turns between now and the end of the campaign.
It would mark the most incredible of comebacks. However, Luigi Dall’Igna ‘burst out laughing’ about Marquez when asked if he was the reason for their dominance, not their bike.
Even Marquez has had to ‘entertain himself’ amid Ducati’s dominance. He has to push to keep himself awake at some events.
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Neil Hodgson is ‘struggling’ to watch Marquez because he now has to ride completely differently from how he did with Honda.
The last of his six premier class titles came back in 2019, months before he would suffer a devastating accident at the season-opener the following year.
It’s his ability to recover from crashes like that one which has left Mat Oxley amazed. Much like Mick Doohan and Jorge Lorenzo did, he thinks it’s an ‘impossible’ ability to get back up from accidents.
“His ability to, same as Doohan and Jorge Lorenzo, most of them in fact. His ability to ride through the pain and keep going, it’s just impossible to get your head around,” he said.
“I smashed myself up a lot, you smashed yourself up a lot. I do not enjoy pain, I do not enjoy it. It makes me not want to hurt myself again. You suck the throttle a bit, so these guys are just [special]. Him more than anyone [Marquez] in history.”
How Marc Marquez can break one of Valentino Rossi’s biggest MotoGP records in 2025
Marquez is currently on an incredible run of form, and he will be looking to pick up where he left off in Austria when MotoGP returns from the summer break.
He has won each of the last five sprint races and Grands Prix, and doubling that would see him match his incredible record of 10 consecutive wins from 2014.
Even more significantly than that, by becoming champion this year at the age of 32, he will beat Valentino Rossi’s record by two years.
The Italian rider claimed the last of his triumphs in 2009, one year before he left Yamaha for a disappointing spell with Ducati.