The MotoGP world championship has been in operation since 1949, with 30 riders in that time winning the premier class crown.<\/p>\n
Britain\u2019s Les Graham won the very first MotoGP<\/a> title back in 1949 riding an AJS, forming part of an elite club of just 30 names to have etched themselves onto the championship trophy.<\/p>\n By contrast, there have been 34 drivers since 1950 who have won Formula 1 world championships.<\/p>\n John Surtees remains the only person in history to have done both, winning four MotoGP titles in 1956, 1958, 1959 and 1960, and then the F1 crown in 1964.<\/p>\n Read more: All-time MotoGP race winners’ list<\/a><\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Of those 30 riders to have won the premier class championship, just 17 have done so more than once.<\/p>\n The rider with the most is Giacomo Agostini, who scored eight MotoGP titles and 15 championships in total when adding in his 350cc crowns.<\/p>\n Valentino Rossi<\/a> is next on that list with seven in MotoGP and nine overall, with Marc Marquez<\/a> as of the start of the 2025 season on six in the premier class and eight overall.<\/p>\n In the 21st Century, five riders have won more than one world title in MotoGP: Rossi, Marquez, Jorge Lorenzo, Casey Stoner and Pecco Bagnaia.<\/p>\n Just five riders have managed to win the premier class title with multiple manufacturers: Agostini, Rossi, Geoff Duke, Eddie Lawson and Stoner.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n Full list of MotoGP world champions from 1949 to present day\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 List of all 500cc\/MotoGP world champions 1949-2024RiderTitlesYearsManufacturersGiacomo Agostini81966-1972, 1975MV Agusta, YamahaValentino Rossi72001-2005, 2008-2009Honda, YamahaMarc Marquez62013-2014, 2016-2019HondaMick Doohan51994-1998HondaGeoff Duke41951, 1953-1955Norton, GileraJohn Surtees41956, 1958-1960MV AgustaMike Hailwood41962-1965MV AgustaEddie Lawson41984, 1986, 1988-1989Yamaha, HondaKenny Roberts31978-1980YamahaWayne Rainey31990-1992YamahaJorge Lorenzo32010, 2012, 2015YamahaUmberto Masetti21950, 1952GileraPhil Read21973-1974MV AgustaBarry Sheene21976-1977SuzukiFreddie Spencer21983, 1985HondaCasey Stoner22007, 2011Ducati, HondaPecco Bagnaia22022-2023DucatiLes Graham11949AJSLibero Liberati11957GileraGary Hocking11961MV AgustaMarco Lucchinelli11981SuzukiFranco Uncini11982SuzukiWayne Gardner11987HondaKevin Schwantz11993SuzukiAlex Criville11999HondaKenny Roberts Jr.12000SuzukiNicky Hayden12006HondaJoan Mir12020SuzukiFabio Quartararo12021YamahaJorge Martin12024DucatiSubscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The MotoGP world championship has been in operation since 1949, with 30 riders in that time winning the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,21588,108409,16230,7607,108407,108406,9398,108408,20874,5744,108410,108411,4280,806,805,803,804,85,20420],"class_list":{"0":"post-164684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-casey-stoner","11":"tag-eddie-lawson","12":"tag-fabio-quartararo","13":"tag-francesco-bagnaia","14":"tag-geoff-duke","15":"tag-giacomo-agostini","16":"tag-joan-mir","17":"tag-john-surtees","18":"tag-jorge-lorenzo","19":"tag-jorge-martin","20":"tag-kenny-roberts","21":"tag-kenny-roberts-jr","22":"tag-marc-marquez","23":"tag-motor","24":"tag-motor-sports","25":"tag-motosport","26":"tag-motosports","27":"tag-sports","28":"tag-valentino-rossi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}