Marco Bezzecchi
Marc Marquez will miss the final rounds of the 2025 MotoGP season through injury, in an unjust end for the Spaniard’s dominant first year riding for the factory Ducati team.
The 32-year-old was regularly in a class of his own after moving from Gresini to replace Enea Bastianini at Ducati this year. But the Borgo Panigale team have confirmed that Marquez will not return from his shoulder injury in 2025, after requiring surgery to stabilise the ligaments.
Marquez sustained the injury on the opening lap of the Indonesian Grand Prix at the start of October, when Aprilia’s Marco Bezzecchi misjudged their speed into Turn 7 and collided with the Spaniard. Ducati had hoped to see Marquez return in 2025 but have since ruled him out.
The Ducati ace’s season-ending injury also occurred in the round immediately after Marquez won the 2025 MotoGP riders’ title at the Japanese Grand Prix in September. He wrapped up his seventh premier class title so far with five rounds of the 2025 MotoGP season remaining.
Carlo Pernat doubts any rider will repeat Marc Marquez winning the title with five rounds to spare
No rider has ever won a premier class title with more rounds of a season remaining than the five still to go after Marquez lifted the 2025 title at Motegi. But Valentino Rossi’s 2002 title is the record for winning a premier class title at the earliest point of any season by percentage.
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Rossi won the 2002 title after 75% of the season during round 12 of that year’s 16. Marquez won the 2025 title after 77.2% of the season in round 17 of this term’s 22, and Carlo Pernat doubts the Spaniard’s feat of winning a title with five rounds to spare will ever be repeated.
Pernat told GPOne: “Marc has really decimated the entire group of riders this year. Winning a world championship with five Grands Prix to go, I think is an unrepeatable thing in history.”
Marc Marquez made a mockery of his peers to dominate the 2025 MotoGP season
Marc Marquez won the 2025 MotoGP riders’ title at the Japanese GP, as the Ducati racer left Motegi leading his brother Alex Marquez of Gresini atop the championship standings by 201 points. Despite Marc missing the following three races, he also still leads Alex by 132 points.
What makes Marquez’s 2025 MotoGP title win with Ducati all the more impressive is that he sealed the crown with five rounds to spare, despite those rounds offering a maximum of 185 points. Rossi won the title in 2002 with four rounds to spare, which offered up to 100 points.
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The addition of Sprint Races from the 2023 MotoGP season increased the number of points available each round from a maximum of 25 to 37. An additional 12 points each round from Sprints should make it harder for a rider to win a title as early as Marquez achieved in 2025.
Yet Marquez made a mockery of his peers upon jumping on the Ducati Desmosedici GP25 in 2025. The Cervera native won 11 Grands Prix and 14 Sprint Races through the 18 rounds he contested. He even did seven straight Sprint and Grand Prix doubles from round eight to 14.
Fabio Quartararo was also the last rider to win a MotoGP title prior to the final round when he won the 2021 title with Yamaha with two races to spare. Francesco Bagnaia in 2022 and also 2023, and then Jorge Martin in 2024 both won their respective titles during the final round.
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