Marc Marquez wins 2025 MotoGP world championship title at Japan Grand Prix

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The 32-year-old won his archetypal MotoGP riders’ rubric since 2019 aft finishing 2nd to Ducati teammate Francesco Bagnaia astatine Motegi.

Published On 28 Sep 2025

Ducati’s Marc Marquez clinched his seventh MotoGP title astatine the Japanese Grand Prix and his archetypal since 2019 aft helium took an unassailable pb successful the satellite title with 5 rounds to spare.

Marquez needed to outscore his member and rubric contender Alex of Gresini Racing by 3 oregon much points by the extremity of the play and finished 2nd down his teammate Francesco Bagnaia successful Sunday’s contention to clinch the title.

A six-year hold betwixt championships

Marquez past came to a halt successful beforehand of a large surface and, with tears successful his eyes, watched a montage of his struggles implicit the past six years, which included much than 100 crashes and 4 operations, arsenic helium reclaimed the rubric aft 2,184 days.

The coronation was implicit erstwhile helium added his sanction etched connected a metallic plaque to the cylindrical MotoGP trophy known arsenic the ‘Tower of Champions’.

“It’s intolerable adjacent to speak… I conscionable privation to bask the moment, but it’s existent that it was difficult, it was ace difficult, but present I’m astatine bid with myself,” Marquez said arsenic helium fought backmost tears.

“I did a large mistake successful my career, to travel backmost excessively aboriginal (from surgery) and past I fight, fight, combat – and I won again! So I’m astatine peace.”

Ducati’s rod sitter and Saturday’s sprint victor Bagnaia had a beardown commencement and 2 laps aboriginal helium was much than a 2nd wide of KTM’s Pedro Acosta portion Marquez slotted successful down his Spanish compatriot successful 3rd place.

Bagnaia successful control

By thigh seven, Bagnaia was comfortably successful power successful the pb but Marquez seemed to beryllium struggling to lucifer Acosta’s pace, giving Mir the accidental to adjacent successful and situation him for 3rd place.

Marquez yet recovered a mode past Acosta erstwhile helium tucked into his slipstream and overtook him connected thigh 11, but helium was staring astatine a spread of 4 seconds to his teammate Bagnaia, who was streaking distant to his 2nd triumph of the season.

With 11 laps left, Acosta was intelligibly struggling for grip and Mir pounced to determination up to 3rd arsenic the 2020 champion chased a uncommon podium decorativeness having retired from 10 races this season.

The Ducati paddock had a fewer heart-stopping moments successful the 2nd fractional of the contention erstwhile Bagnaia’s motorcycle began emitting fume arsenic Marquez began to adjacent successful rapidly, but the Italian was yet capable to caregiver his motorcycle to the chequered flag.

“I don’t privation to instrumentality the spotlight from Marc, helium deserves the spotlight today,” said Bagnaia, who has been MotoGP champion doubly successful 2022 and 2023.

“But successful immoderate case, I’m happy. It’s conscionable a small shame that it arrived present (so precocious successful the season)… I anticipation that from present connected I volition proceed successful this way, due to the fact that similar this I tin fight.”