The long-standing records Marquez and Bagnaia can break in MotoGP 2025

Pre-season testing at Sepang and Buriram has strengthened early predictions about 2025 being a walkover for Ducati in MotoGP.

Most analysts and consultants level to the championship being a head-to-head battle between Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia, who’re teaming up on the works Ducati squad this 12 months. Collectively, Marquez and Bagnaia boast a formidable 11 titles – together with eight within the premier class – and a complete of 91 victories, cut up between 62 for the Spaniard and 29 for the Italian.

Ducati’s ‘dream staff’ is contesting the longest season within the historical past of the world championship, with 22 races, making it potential for them to interrupt the 13-victory file set by Marquez at Honda in 2014. In reality, final 12 months, Bagnaia managed to win 11 out of 20 races regardless of not profitable the championship.

One other file that would fall this 12 months is the one for essentially the most victories by a single staff, which is held by Honda since 2014. Throughout that season, HRC gained 14 races, with Dani Pedrosa’s triumph on the Czech GP including to the 13 victories achieved by Marquez. Honda had damaged its personal file of 13 victories from 2011, when Casey Stoner gained 10 races and Pedrosa scored one other three.

In 2024, Bagnaia and Enea Bastianini, driving for Ducati, matched that whole of 13 victories. Due to this fact, ending the 2025 season with fewer than 14 victories could be a step backward for Ducati.

Fewest race winners in a single season

The 2025 season might even see the fewest variety of race winners in MotoGP’s historical past. Within the MotoGP period, the file for the least variety of grand prix victors in a single season was set in 2012, when solely three riders managed to win any of the 18 occasions – Pedrosa with seven, Stoner with 5 and champion Jorge Lorenzo with six.

On 9 events, solely 4 riders have gained races in a single season, most just lately in 2015, with victories from Lorenzo (seven), Marquez (5), Valentino Rossi (4), and Pedrosa (two).

5 riders managed to win a race in seven seasons within the championship’s MotoGP period. This was additionally the case in 2024, when Bagnaia gained 11 races, Pramac’s Jorge Martin took the crown with three victories, Marquez gained one other three races, Bastianini secured two wins, and Maverick Vinales managed one victory for Aprilia. In whole, Ducati gained 19 of the 20 grands prix.

There was the same scenario in 2003 when Honda gained 15 out of the 16 grands prix held that 12 months. The one time the Japanese producer missed out on a victory that season was in Barcelona, when Loris Capirossi took the highest spot for Ducati.

No doubt, the largest problem for the Italian producer this season might be to complete the 12 months with an ideal file of victories.

Race winners per season within the MotoGP period

In daring the world champion of every season