{"id":43578,"date":"2025-08-04T19:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43578\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T19:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:53:09","slug":"marc-marquez-has-now-emulated-an-impossible-motogp-feat-just-like-mick-doohan-and-jorge-lorenzo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/43578\/","title":{"rendered":"Marc Marquez has now emulated an &#8216;impossible&#8217; MotoGP feat just like Mick Doohan and Jorge Lorenzo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Marc Marquez is a modern-day legend of MotoGP and is on course to level Valentino Rossi for most titles in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard has been in incredible form this season, and leads the title race by 120 points at the summer break. Joining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motogpnews.com\/tag\/ducati\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ducati<\/a> was an inspired decision.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motogpnews.com\/tag\/marc-marquez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marquez<\/a> has taken to the Italian manufacturer like a duck to water and has won 19 of the 24 races on offer.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>It would mark the most incredible of comebacks. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motogpnews.com\/2025\/07\/24\/luigi-dalligna-burst-out-laughing-after-being-asked-one-question-about-marc-marquezs-ducati-dominance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luigi Dall\u2019Igna \u2018burst out laughing\u2019 about Marquez<\/a> when asked if he was the reason for their dominance, not their bike.<\/p>\n<p>Even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motogpnews.com\/2025\/07\/22\/marc-marquez-spotted-doing-something-unique-at-the-czech-grand-prix-to-entertain-himself-amid-ducati-dominance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marquez has had to \u2018entertain himself\u2019 amid Ducati\u2019s dominance<\/a>. He has to push to keep himself awake at some events.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motogpnews.com\/2025\/07\/22\/marc-marquez-said-something-in-ducati-team-meeting-that-shows-why-hes-a-serial-motogp-champion\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Marquez said something in Ducati team meeting that shows why he\u2019s a serial MotoGP champion<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2225258480-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Marc Marquez of Ducati sprays champagne on the MotoGP podium\" class=\"wp-image-23671\" \/>Photo by MICHAL CIZEK\/AFP via Getty ImagesMarc Marquez has emulated an \u2018impossible\u2019 Mick Doohan and Jorge Lorenzo MotoGP feat<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motogpnews.com\/2025\/07\/19\/neil-hodgson-explains-why-he-is-struggling-to-watch-marc-marquez-at-the-czech-grand-prix\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neil Hodgson is \u2018struggling\u2019 to watch Marquez<\/a> because he now has to ride completely differently from how he did with Honda.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s his ability to recover from crashes like that one which has left Mat Oxley amazed. Much like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motogpnews.com\/tag\/mick-doohan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mick Doohan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motogpnews.com\/tag\/jorge-lorenzo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jorge Lorenzo<\/a> did, he thinks it\u2019s an \u2018impossible\u2019 ability to get back up from accidents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis ability to, same as Doohan and Jorge Lorenzo, most of them in fact. His ability to ride through the pain and keep going, it\u2019s just impossible to get your head around,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motogpnews.com\/2025\/07\/18\/marc-marquez-leaving-ducati-for-80-point-team-is-not-out-of-the-question-if-he-wins-the-next-two-championships\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Marquez leaving Ducati for 80-point team is not \u2018out of the question\u2019 if he wins the next two championships<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How Marc Marquez can break one of Valentino Rossi\u2019s biggest MotoGP records in 2025<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Even more significantly than that, by becoming champion this year at the age of 32, he will beat Valentino Rossi\u2019s record by two years.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian rider claimed the last of his triumphs in 2009, one year before he left Yamaha for a disappointing spell with Ducati.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marc Marquez is a modern-day legend of MotoGP and is on course to level Valentino Rossi for most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,20874,4280,30388,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-43578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-jorge-lorenzo","tag-marc-marquez","tag-mick-doohan","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43578","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=43578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}