Marc Marquez dethroned Jorge Martin as MotoGP champion in 2025 as he lifted his seventh premier class title after Ducati opted to sign him over the Spaniard.
The Borgo Panigale brand have opted to give Francesco Bagna a new team-mate in 2025, having decided that Ine Bastianini is no longer part of their long-term plans. at last , Ducati They chose to sign Marquez A two-year contract instead of moving Martin Alignment to their factory.
Martin is believed to be lining up his works for a Ducati seat after battling Baganiya for the title at satellite team Pramac in 2023 and 2024. Ducati preferred to sign Marquez instead of MartinFinally agreed to join Aprilia In 2025 to finally compete with the factory team.
Aprilia will only see Martin contest seven of the 22 races in the 2025 season, but the Madrid native has struggled through injury in his first year in the Nole outfit. Marquez won the 2025 title in Ducati’s first year After 11 Grand Prix wins and 14 Sprint race wins.
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Jorge Martin hopes to be able to say ‘I don’t give up’ like Marc Marquez
Marquez’s 2025 title is his seventh premier class crown to date, as well as his 2018 title. It was his first since 2019 after enduring a career-threatening injury at the 2020 Spanish Grand Prix. And Martin was inspired by Marquez’s mindset to “never” give up.
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Martin So Martin hopes that, like Marquez, he can say he hasn’t given up when he finally retires.
“Our sport is dangerous and will always be,” Martin said The competition. “My nickname is Martinator, like Terminator. I didn’t like it at first, but now I feel it, I feel it because I’m half titanium half muscle!”
“The best sportsmen in history are not the ones who won a lot, but the ones who come back after losing and fight until they win again. That’s my thinking.
“I look at (Rafael) Nadal, (Novak) Djokovic (and) Mark, all these guys, and they’re amazing athletes. I hope I can say that I’m one of those who don’t give up when I retire.
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Injuries are part of motorcycle racing because of the accidents Martin mentioned. The 27-year-old also knows a lot about injuries ahead of the 2025 season, where he feared for his life after breaking 11 ribs and suffering a hemopneumothorax in Qatar in April.
Martin In his rookie season with Pramac in 2021, he sought the Portuguese Grand Prix that year after suffering three separate surgeries in FP3 with multiple fractures. It sustained a 5.2 second crash that featured seven impacts over 20G, including one peak at 26G.
Martin was out of Aprilia for the first three rounds of 2025 after breaking his right arm and left leg in Supermoto practice at the Sepang test. However, Martin soon returned from injury and crashed in Qatar.
Martin now says his arm “wasn’t ready” and that after only “two or three laps” at the Qatar Grand Prix he was physically broken. He crashed and was hit by Luzille’s VR46 racer Fabio Di Giannantonio, which resulted in a further seven-lap absence and was not the last.
Martin missed the final four rounds of the Japanese Grand Prix after taking out his Aprilia team-mate Marco Bezecic. The Spaniard required another operation after breaking his collarbone. Martin returned to Valencia despite not being fully fit For the last.
