Italian rider Giacomo Agostini has won the most world championships titles with a record number 15 across all classes. New User posted their first comment. Log in. Give feedback. Sort by: Most popular Recent Most upvotes. Login to post your comment. Show More Comments. No thanks Delete. Next time out at Assen, another podium.
Regis Laconi is the last French premier class victor, when he stood on the top step in Valencia, 20 years ago. Jerez saw him become the youngest polesitter in the premier class, and he took five more that season.
He also came up against then seven-time World Champion Marc Marquez in some incredible last lap duels — not quite defeating the number 93, but making life impressively difficult. Seven podiums saw Quartararo end the year fifth overall, take Rookie of the Year and the overall top Independent Team rider title. Fabio Quartararo had arrived. Building Success - Episode 3: Who is this guy? In , it started with a dream double win at Jerez and the Yamaha rider seemed the man to beat.
Some more struggles later, the crown was instead nabbed by Joan Mir and Quartararo went into winter pushing to reset and reload, vowing to iron out the kinks and fight for the crown again. Off the podium in Qatar, he hit back in Doha to take his first victory of the season.
It wouldn't be a title celebration without the gold helmet! The FabioQ20 party is well and truly underway! Barcelona saw a little drama unzipped, but a solid 10 points and another rostrum in Germany prefaced victory at Assen, sending the number 20 flying high into the summer break. But still, one podium and then a salvage job of seventh in a crazy Austrian GP later, Quartararo remained firmly holding the cards as the paddock returned to Silverstone.
His second-place Motegi finish and the 20 points that accompanied it delivered him his second and successive MotoGP World Championship, becoming the first Honda rider to clinch a World title—in any class—at the Motegi circuit. He also became the youngest ever rider to win two consecutive premier-class World Championships at the age of 21 years, days, taking the record from Mike Hailwood, who was 23 years, days when he won his second successive cc title in During the first race, at Losail Circuit, he ran wide in turn 1 and had to make a great recovery to finish in fifth position.
Marquez produced a stellar performance at the GP of Spain to close the gap in the Championship with a well-earned second place, but thereafter Le Mans, Mugello and Catalunya comprised a challenging period. He just managed fourth in France but suffered two more zeros in Italy and Catalunya. Assen marked another important point during the year. Marc, who had been tailing Valentino for 19 laps, made his move with seven laps remaining, taking the lead.
With just three laps to go, a small mistake in the last chicane allowed Rossi to pass him and try to open up a gap. Marc recovered four tenths of a second to Valentino in the last lap and made his move into the last chicane on the final lap. The two riders touched briefly but Valentino was able to pick the bike up, riding through the gravel trap, beating Marc to the finish line.
Marc sealed a perfect weekend in Germany, recording a new race-lap record en route to victory, following his pole-position record, and he won again in Indianapolis. With these two consecutive victories, he was able to reduce his gap to 56 points behind Rossi. Starting from second on the grid in Brno, Marc held his position behind pole man Jorge Lorenzo from the beginning to the chequered flag. Unfortunately, in Silverstone he crashed out at turn one while fighting for the lead in the rain during an accident-filled race.
At Misano—one of just three active circuits where he had not previously won in the premier class along with Motegi and Phillip Island —the Repsol Honda rider returned to victory in varying weather, following two bike changes.
Marquez arrived in Aragon 63 points behind Rossi, but then crashed out in turn 12, ending his title hopes. Marc only managed to come home fourth in the wet Motegi race, but he took an incredible victory at the next round, in Australia. Lorenzo pushed at the front, trying to open a gap as the other riders jostled for position behind him throughout the race. With just two laps to go, Marc dropped down to fourth but never gave up hope, passing Rossi for third on the penultimate lap and making up two more places on the final lap the fastest lap of the race.
Marquez took the victory by just 0. In Malaysia, Marc was involved in an incident with Valentino Rossi and crashed out on lap five. Dani made a strong start, and as he took control at the front, Marc and Rossi fought fiercely for third place behind Lorenzo.
Rossi led Marc on lap five, and as they exited turn 13 with Marc on the outside, Rossi slowed and Marc crashed out of the race. Marc concluded the season with a second-place finish in the Valencia GP and finished the year in third overall.
The season positively proved that Marc is a fast learner. He approached his fourth MotoGP campaign with a new mentality, vowing that he would fight for the win or the podium when possible and would minimize the damage when the odds were against him.
Consistency was the key to a season for which the introduction of unified electronics and a switch from Bridgestone to Michelin tyres shook the field up and made the racing more unpredictable than ever. After a demanding preseason that produced mixed results for the Repsol Honda Team, Marc started the Championship in a positive way, climbing the third step of the podium at the season opener in Qatar.
In Argentina Marc and the team took their revenge on the Australian mix-up, scoring an awesome victory in another tyre-issue-affected race that—despite taking place in dry conditions—was run in a flag-to-flag format with a compulsory stop to change motorcycles.
One week later he scored his fourth successive Austin win from pole , making it his 10 th victory in a row on American soil.
With this success, Marc also overtook Kevin Schwantz in number of victories in the premier class, with Back in Europe for the first race on home turf, Marc realized that trying to win was too risky and wisely settled for third behind title rivals Rossi and Lorenzo.
The Italian GP was a first important turning point in the season, as Rossi retired with an engine failure. Marc engaged Lorenzo in a spectacular duel for victory on the final lap, and he lost it at the line by a mere 19 thousandths of a second. The Catalan GP two weeks later dealt a cruel blow to the riders and the whole MotoGP movement, as year-old Moto2 Spanish rider Luis Salom lost his life after crashing during the second free practice.
Two weeks later, the Dutch TT was red-flagged due to heavy rain. Marc got off well on the second start but ran wide and dropped back to third behind Dovizioso and Rossi; after the two Italians fell ahead of him and with Lorenzo back in 10 th place, Marc gave up a fight for the victory with fellow Honda rider Jack Miller, in order to avoid the risk of throwing away a vital second-place finish.
Bad weather continued to affect the action during the next race in Germany, halfway into the season. Following an earlier downpour, the young Spaniard was struggling on a surface that was drying progressively and dropped back to ninth place after swerving off the track, but he never lost his nerve and changed to slick tyres before everyone else, beginning an incredible recovery from 14 th position to take his seventh win in a row at the Sachsenring Circuit. The result was Marquez heading into the summer break with a healthy point lead over Lorenzo in the Championship classification.
The action resumed in August, with a tight schedule of four races in five weeks that saw Marc putting into best practice his new strategy. He managed to finish fifth in the Ducati-dominated Austrian GP, took third in the Czech GP and, not perfectly comfortable with his choice of tyres in both the British and Misano GPs, scored two fourth-place finishes, the latter in a race dominated by teammate Pedrosa.
At the same time, Lorenzo dropped back in third, 61 points off the top, while Rossi reduced his standings deficit to 43 points. Marc also moved to 52 points clear of the Italian in the standings, and 66 ahead of his countryman. A slim chance, actually. He needed to win at a track where he had never won in the premier class; he needed the Italian to finish 15th or lower and his countryman to finish off the podium. It was a long shot but Marc put in a magnificent display and won the race while both his title rivals faltered and fell.
Yoshishige Nomura. At the age of 23 and days, he became the youngest-ever rider to win three premier-class World Championship, taking the record from Mike Hailwood who was 24 years days when he won his third successive cc title in After a DNF and an eleventh place in Australia and Malaysia, Marc returned to the podium in Valencia, in the th GP of his career, scoring an important second-place finish and helping Honda secure its 22 nd Premier Class Constructor title during its 50 th Anniversary racing in the division.
Never, since advancing from Moto2 to MotoGP in , had Marquez failed to post at least one win in the first two races, nor had he found himself as low as eighth place in the Championship.
Nonetheless, round three in Austin was once again entirely a Marc Marquez affair. Taking his first win of the season, the Spaniard completed a perfect weekend, emerging victorious at Circuit of the Americas for the fifth-straight time , after starting from pole position.
The French and Italian Grand Prix events comprised two additional challenging venues. Assen represented the 94 th career podium for Marc and the th for the Repsol Honda Team. When the action resumed in Brno, Marc took his second-consecutive victory, in challenging conditions. He therefore decided to swap motorcycles quite early and entered the pit on lap two, when his team was prepared with his second bike, fitted with slick tyres.
The decision allowed Marquez to pull a significant gap on his opponents, and he managed it until the chequered flag. At the Austrian GP, Marc scored his fifth-consecutive podium result, just losing the victory to Andrea Dovizioso after a great battle that lasted until the last corner. Unfortunately, at the subsequent British Grand Prix, Marc suffered a technical problem that forced him to retire, putting the Italian, who won the race, at the top of the standings.
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