Crash statistics further underline Marquez’s dominance of MotoGP 2025

Six-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez has never been shy in admitting that his DNA pushes him to seek the limit of the bike almost every time he takes to the track.

That tendency usually makes him prone to more crashes, and he has ended most seasons in MotoGP among the list of riders with the highest crash counts.

This year, however, something has changed. In his second campaign on a Ducati, and the first with the official factory team from Borgo Panigale, the Spaniard has found greater stability.

Ahead of the 15th round of the 2025 calendar this weekend in Barcelona, Marquez has registered just nine crashes — fewer than half of the 19 he had accumulated by this stage last season, his first on the Desmosedici with Gresini. Those 19 accidents in 2024, until the Emilia Romagna GP, placed him at the top of the ‘crash chart’ alongside then-rookie Pedro Acosta.

The picture is very different in 2025. This year, as many as 10 riders have gone down more often than Marquez. Among the six Ducati riders, Alex Marquez and Franco Morbidelli (14 each) and Fermin Aldeguer (10) have hit the ground more times than him, while Francesco Bagnaia (6) and Fabio Di Giannantonio (3) have recorded fewer falls than the Spaniard. 

Moreover, the elder Marquez has now gone two consecutive weekends – Austria and Hungary – without a single crash. His last incident came at Brno before the summer break, when he went down in second qualifying and lost a likely pole position. Even in that case, he made up for the fall, winning the sprint race and then the grand prix the following day.

Even if he hits a difficult run in the remainder of the season, it is unlikely that Marquez will match his tally of 19 crashes from 2024, and even less so the 29 he endured in 2023 – the season that ultimately led him to cut short his contract with Honda.

The real dominance shows up in another chart. Marquez has now scored 10 double wins from 14 possible weekends this season, alongside eight poles and 11 front-row starts. Those figures, coupled with a 175-point advantage over his closest rival – his brother Alex – underline his superiority as much as the crash statistics do. 

If that margin grows to 185 after the Catalan Grand Prix, Marquez will have the chance to seal his seventh MotoGP title in Misano, six races before the season finale.

“The team already knows what I need, because we’ve had a number of races together and we understand each other much better now,” the 32-year-old said in Hungary.

“I was strong from the beginning, I could flow with the bike, and that can’t be denied,” he added.

A long-time Honda insider also noted the change in Marquez’s outlook.

 “Those of us who worked with Marc knew that after the summer, he would be even more consistent than in the first half of the season,” the insider told Autosport.

“He always tends to think he’s not as superior as he really is. Now he has convinced himself, and that has made him calmer and even more reliable. When you watch him race, you see he has a big safety margin.

“Anyone who doubted whether he could win once he had the best bike simply didn’t know what he was capable of. Now, they probably do.”