Mark Market: Motogp Champion who came back from hell

Mark marksThe motorcycle racing career was always tied to success. From a very young age, Spaniard began to win into categories where his opponents were, in some cases, was longer than 30 centimeters long. In addition to being young at age, he was younger in height, which made him even more striking to look at the podium on local tracks, where he competed as a child.

But Marke’s tenacity matched his talent and courage, and he did his work till the World Speed ​​Championship, in which he joined just 15 years of age in 2008. His qualities and smiles allowed their then manager to secure the support of KTM bike and oil company repsol, which wanted to associate her image with Markkes from the beginning.

In his first race, on 13 April that year in Estoril, he ended 18th, 51.6 seconds behind the winner Simone Corsie. All other riders who participated in that race, in total 34, are now retired, although one of them, Takki nakagamiThis Sunday competed as a Honda Wildcard in his role as a Test rider.

Marx selected 13 Grands Prix in its first year at the World Championship in 2008 and only six races were required to reach their first and only podiums that year, which came as the third in the British Grand Prix.

He reiterated the result in Jerez in 2009, earned his own only podium of the season – and his first with the official Red Bull KTM Motorsport Team, which was already recognized in Markes that he had rode.

He did not take a long time to achieve the results that he was capable. In 2010, with his third year in the championship and then with the team of Aki Ajo, he started the season with the third in Qatar. Market’s curiosity to win was so strong that he crashed on the warm-up lap before the onset of Spanish GP and could not participate in the race. In France, he repeated third place, stood at the top of the podium, in his second place of the year and fourth of his career.

First of 99 World Championship win

Market’s first world championship victory in the 125cc category came to Mugelo on 6 June 2010, where she shared podium with Nico Terol and Poll asparagarao, Johan Zarko At that time it was also on the grid.

Since then, the doors of success opened widespread: That year he achieved 12 poles, 10 wins, and a total of 12 podiums in 17, which gave him his first world title and Moto 2 category at the age of 17.

In its first year in the intermediate category, Marke’s influence was so powerful that the sponsors fought to keep their names on the letters of Spaniels. Even repsol and bank CX flew almost to claim the biggest part of the fairing on their sutter bikes.

Despite the great expectations for his debut, Markez crashed 16 laps from the end in Qatar, then fell again in Jerez and Portugal. In Estoril, however, he lifted the bike best and finished 21st.

In three breeds, three voids closed some alarm bells, but Markez chained 11 podiums together in the next 12 races, silenced the girlfriend, including seven wins in a stream that was taking him directly.

However, his first serious injury occurred in the Malaysian GP, ​​when an accident in a free practice in Sepang also caused an episode of diplopia in his left eye, with double and blurred vision as well as dizziness.

Markets, who led Japan to the World Championship ended to lose the Moto2 title Stephen Bradal In the last two races of the year, in which he could not participate.

Honda secretly signs her a year ago

The despair of Spaniels was monumental: despite winning the seven races, he was the runner -up behind Bradal, who became champions with only four wins, but 23 more points. Even without the title, marketing performance attracted the attention of HRC veteran, who reached a secret agreement for Spaniered to step up to Motogp in 2013, through the then-General Manager Livio Sapo, forced to refuse to debut with a factory, despite timely rules, forced to do so.

The year of waiting before going to the premiere class was walking in the park for marketing in Moto 2, with nine wins, 14 podiums and seven poles in 17 Grands Prix gathered to secure their second world crown at just 19 years of age. Till then (2012), Marx had already won 26 in two classes.

Honda’s power and, above these, Marquez’s huge popularity also inspired Dornna to accept a rule change before reaching Motogp to make a #93 premiere class debut, which was then considered the best team in the world: Rapesol Honda.

Take to motoogp

In his first season, Markez started with a podium in Qatar and won his first motoogi win in the US GP on 21 April, only 20 years and 63 days, became the youngest rider to do so – a record that still stands today.

That year, Marx surprised everyone, scored six wins, 16 podiums and 334 points in 18 Grands Prix, which became the youngest Motoogi Champion in 20 years and 266 days – a record that still stands.

The 2014 season was another walkover for Severa origin: he won the first 10 races of the season, another record, and three more winning pair in the last eight races, for a total of 13 wins and 362 points, he earned his second Motogp Crown.

2015 bad dream

The 2015 season was a marketing, but will erase from his career. Set-up problems with bikes and a tires that did not suit the RC213V, left Honda Rider at the mercy of Yamaha’s formidable pair: Valentino Rossi And George Lorenzo,

Marx could win only five races that year and scored 242 points, making him out of the title fight early. However, history will be remembered by the notorious Sepang Clash, when Rossi kicked Marx’s bike and Lorenzo won, which Rosie rejected his 10th title.

For Markets, at just 22 years old, he left an impression on the rest of his career to deal with that whole situation, and no matter how much he tried to make a relationship, so far there has been no harmony between the two biggest riders in history so far.

The response was vigorous: Markez won the 2016, 2017, and 2018 title with an inferior bike, respectively, ‘only’ five, six and nine wins, without re -passed close to 362 points in 2014.

However, Market’s best year was yet to come. In 2019, Honda Rider scored 12 wins, 18 podiums and 420 points to complete their best season. By then, he had already claimed eight World Championships – and at the age of just 26 in the premiere class, he is still ahead with his entire game career.

Sad Jerez accident in 2020

It seemed at that time that Marx had carried forward his entire life to win the title, victory and record. But then epidemic came: The start of the season was delayed, the calendar became short and many races focused on a few tracks. The first weekend of the year was Spanish GP in Jerase on 19 July.

Marx started the third place on the grid, but he was not ready to allow anyone else to win that day. He was already a pioneer in just two laps, but he widened at Lap five and came to 17th place. From there, he began a combined return: He was already in 10th position by Lap 10; Lap 18 was the sixth, and at Lap 21, only four laps from the end, he was in the position of podium, third, behind Fabio Quartaro And Maverick Vinales, who were moving far ahead. He could leave it there, but Markets did not want to lose the race and made a mistake on Turn 3, crashed in the run-off area, where his front wheel hit his right hand and broke his haumaras.

After the emergency surgery on Tuesday, Rider flew back to the gerase on Friday, intending to participate in the Andalusi GP over the weekend. After a debate between the rider, doctors, their agents and the team, Marx went out on the track in FP3 on Saturday, completed 18 laps, and faced a break in the plate that caught his fractured humorus.

Fall into the kitchen

Over the years, Marx admitted that he had run away and had taken a wrong decision.

“The only thing that I regret in my career is back on the bike after the 2020 operation,” he later said.

Honda Ryder missed the entire 2020 season, and over the next three years he continued fighting with injuries, fighting 41 races and adding three more victories to his tally, but three times to go under the knife. It was a four -year event of pain, rehabilitation, manager, habits, residence and top, uncertainty.

“The most difficult part didn’t know if I was going to be competitive again,” he remembered in the documentary In all,

In the same film, one of the most stunning scenes was recorded on a private aircraft, when Marx pointed to four marks on his right hand, saying: “I did it to win again, with you or without you,” referring to Honda, referring to Honda, who was not giving him a bike to fight for victory.

Honda Exhaust

In 2023, Markez felt that he needed a ducati to win again and, despite leaving another year on his Honda deal, by the end of 2024, he asked the Japanese – in which he had given six motakap titles and 54 wins – to release him with his contract. Honda agreed.

Marx’s floor satellite was the Gracini team, a small but ambitious and very family-oriented structure, where his brother Alex had already been competing for two years after leaving Honda.

Marx left his salary to ride a Ducati GP23 and recovered practically, he started enjoying herself on the bike. The top -strength results were not immediate – they needed 12 races, until Aragon GP, ​​to win, was his first in Motogp on a bike other than Honda. But Ducati’s confidence in Markes was such that before he scored his first podium, in the round four in Jerez, he already knew that he was a man for the factory team in 2024.

Markets arrived at the official Borgo Panigale garage at the age of 32 in 2025, eight world titles, six in Motogp, and 83 World Championships winning, including 57 in the premiere class.

Hell

Never before was no one “disappeared” from the level of the elite at the age of 26, missed a full season, and then spent three more out of surgery before winning again. Nevertheless, Marx believed that he could do it, and Ducati followed him in his dream, provided him the best bike today. The result was an explosion of victory – 11 in the first 16 races of the season, seven consecutive consecutive races between Aragon and Hungary, and the first championship match point in Japan, six races before the end of the year.

In Mottegi, a circuit where he had already celebrated three titles, Markez completed the biggest comeback in the history of the game, marked the return of a champion, who fell into Abis and got up deeply and woke up deeply to claim the seventh title in his ninth World Championship and Motogi.