Marco Bezzecchi
Marc Marquez is the King of the Sachsenring, having dominated at the home of the German Grand Prix throughout not just his MotoGP career but in the lower classes.
It was not love at first sight for Marquez and the Sachsenring, as the Spaniard had a difficult start to his German GP record in the 125cc category back in the late 2000s. Yet Marquez has a rare ability to excel in left-hand corners, and 77% of the corners at the Sachsenring go left.
Riders do not need to use the right-hand side of their tyres all the way from the long Turn 3 until they flick into the downhill Turn 11. The constant, winding nature of the long run from Turn 6 to Turn 10 also gives Marquez plenty of opportunities to demonstrate his advantage.
Since taking his first win at the Sachsenring in the 2010 125cc German GP, it has often been a case of the only rider who can beat Marquez at the track on the edge of an industrial park in Saxony is the Spaniard himself. Even amid Marquez’s recovery from his career-threatening arm injury from 2020, he sealed his first post-surgery win in the 2021 German GP for Honda.
What is Marc Marquez’s BEST win at the German Grand Prix?
Marquez has won TWELVE times at the Sachsenring across his Grand Prix career!
Marc Marquez has secured a MotoGP record nine German Grand Prix wins
Honda celebrated as Marquez secured each of his first eight German Grand Prix wins, which also moved the Spaniard level with Giacomo Agostini for the most premier class victories in the race’s history since 1952. Marquez eventually beat Agostini’s record in the 2025 edition.
After moving to the factory Ducati team following one season with Gresini, Marquez did the double at the 2025 German Grand Prix with Sprint and feature race glory at the Sachsenring. He also took pole that term, which led to his record-breaking ninth MotoGP German GP win.
Thus, as of the time of writing, Marquez has to date won the MotoGP German GP during the 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021 seasons for Honda, as well as for Ducati in 2025. Marquez and Agostini are the only riders to clinch more than four German GP wins.
Marc Marquez has won the German GP 12 times across all classes in his career
Such has been Marquez’s supremacy at the Sachsenring over the years that he was actually unbeaten at the German Grand Prix between 2010 and 2021, as well. The Cervera native did not enter the 2022 race amid his ongoing arm injury, and he withdrew before the 2023 race.
It is widely said that the 2023 German GP was even the moment that Marquez knew he had to leave Honda after he crashed six times. Although Marquez refutes that he left Honda due to the 2023 German GP, and instead cites that term’s Japanese GP as the moment he chose.
Marquez scored his first-ever German Grand Prix win in the 125cc class in 2010, before then securing back-to-back Moto2 victories at the Sachsenring in 2011 and 2012. It was only after his injury that Marquez was eventually beaten on track in Germany when he took P2 in 2024.
How many pole positions does Marc Marquez have at the German Grand Prix?
It is not only his German Grand Prix wins that make Marquez the King of the Sachsenring, as well, as he has also secured eight MotoGP pole positions in Saxony, as of the time of writing.
Honda saw Marquez score his first MotoGP German GP pole position as a rookie in 2013, for what was also only the third pole position of his premier class career. The Spaniard also took pole in Germany in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 for Honda, plus 2025 for Ducati.
Marquez also scored one German GP pole position during his 125cc career at the 2010 race, along with taking two Moto2 pole positions at the Sachsenring at the 2011 and 2012 meets.
How many podium finishes does Marc Marquez have at the German Grand Prix?
As of the time of writing, Marquez has secured a combined total of 13 podiums across all of the world championship classes at the German Grand Prix – including one in the 125cc class, two in the Moto2 class and 10 in MotoGP so far (of which, nine have been Grand Prix wins).
Marc Marquez is not the most successful rider in German Grand Prix history, Giacomo Agostini is
While Marquez ranks as the most successful rider at the German Grand Prix in premier class history so far, he is not actually the most successful rider across all classes. Instead, Agostini continues to narrowly lead Marquez for total career race wins in the German GP with his 13.
As of the time of writing, Marquez is one win shy of matching Agostini’s career record, after the Italian scored eight 500cc German GP wins and five 350cc German GP wins. Agostini set the record for the most East German Grand Prix wins at 11, too, after taking six in the 500cc class and five 350cc wins during the race’s brief period on the schedule from 1961 to 1972.
Each of Agostini’s East German GP wins also came at the Sachsenring, while his German GP wins came at the Nurburgring Sudschleife (350cc: 1965, 1968 – 500cc: 1968), Hockenheim (350cc: 1969, 1971 – 500cc: 1967, 1969, 1971, 1975), and at the Nurburgring Nordschleife (350cc: 1970 – 500cc: 1970, 1972, 1976) after those circuits rotated hosting the Grand Prix.
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