With his second-place finish at the Japanese Grand Prix, Marc Márquez clinched the 2025 MotoGP Riders’ Championship. The title is Márquez’s seventh MotoGP Riders’ Championship, and his ninth world title across all classes.
It also completes one of sport’s greatest comeback stories.
After securing his sixth MotoGP title in 2019, Márquez endured a horrific string of injuries that put his racing future in doubt, and left the Spanish rider living what he described as a “nightmare,” and wondering if he would be “ready to win” again.
At the season-opening race in 2020, Márquez crashed heavily in the closing laps at Circuito de Jerez. The crash broke his right humerus, requiring surgery on
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