Official crash statistics for the 2025 MotoGP season on the halfway level assist spotlight simply how snug Marc Marquez has been on the manufacturing facility Ducati.
After 12 rounds this season, the 32-year-old has received eight grands prix and 11 sprints to take a 120-point lead within the championship on the summer time break.
At present tempo, he’s on the right track to wrap up an eighth world title and seventh within the premier class in early Autumn, whereas doubtlessly bettering his document of 13 victories in a single season.
On the GP25, Marc Marquez has discovered a motorbike with which he can trip inside his limits, albeit with some changes to his using model in comparison with what he was used to doing on the Honda.
Marc Marquez, Ducati Corse, 2025 Czech MotoGP
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That is one thing illustrated within the official crash statistics revealed by MotoGP following the Czech Grand Prix, which Marquez received.
After 12 rounds, throughout all classes, Marquez’s crash tally for the season up to now stands at simply eight. That’s not the bottom by any stretch, however it’s precisely half of what he had completed on the identical stage of the 2024 season.
Come the top of the Aragon Grand Prix, the place Marquez took his first victory on the Ducati when racing for Gresini, he had fallen 16 instances and would finish the marketing campaign with 24 crashes to his credit score.
The GP23 that Marquez rode final yr proved problematic for all who raced it, with the bike’s tendency to push the entrance beneath braking working towards these – like Marquez – who push exhausting into corners.
Whereas team-mate Pecco Bagnaia has had issues braking how he needs on the GP25, that hasn’t been the case for Marquez.
That has actually helped contribute to his low variety of falls in 2025, in addition to the truth that in lots of racing conditions this season he hasn’t wanted to go to the complete restrict of his bike.
Having crashed 24 instances final yr, his fall complete for 2023 – his final season on the Honda – was 29, whereas in 2022 (the place he missed eight rounds) it was 18. In 2021, lacking 4 rounds, he fell 22 instances. In his most dominant season thus far, 2019, he crashed simply 14 instances throughout the season.
Honda riders prime crash record up to now in MotoGP 2025
Joan Mir, Ai Ogura
Honda duo Johann Zarco and Joan Mir prime the crash stats for the 2025 season up to now with 15 apiece.
For Zarco, 15 already matches what he did within the entirety of 2024. However it is a consequence of two issues. The primary is the RC213V is clearly extra aggressive than it was final yr, with LCR’s Zarco profitable the moist French Grand Prix and ending second on the British Grand Prix.
So, with higher outcomes on supply, there may be extra incentive to push, which in flip results in extra falls. However conversely, whereas the Honda is in higher form in 2025, its lack of engine energy is forcing its riders to push that bit extra to make up floor in braking. When that is the case, crashes are extra probably.
Joan Mir’s determine of 15, to be honest to him, is inflated considerably by some abject luck, with the manufacturing facility Honda rider the unlucky sufferer in different individuals’s tangles at numerous factors this yr.
Three full-time riders sit backside of the crash charts after 12 rounds in 2025. VR46 Ducati’s Fabio Di Giannantonio and Yamaha duo Alex Rins and Miguel Oliveira sit on three. The previous’s is spectacular given his podium type at factors this season.
The Yamaha duo, nevertheless, have largely fallen sufferer to not hitting the deck so usually by means of a normal lack of tempo in comparison with others inside the producer.
Report crowd and most crashes for one occasion in 2025
Maybe unsurprisingly, the circuit with probably the most crashes this yr was Le Mans. Whereas the French Grand Prix venue – which welcomed a brand new MotoGP crowd document in 2025 – is one sometimes seeing lots of falls, the addition of poor climate boosted this determine.
There have been a complete of 70 crashes throughout the French Grand Prix, with the Dutch Grand Prix weekend at Assen subsequent on that record at 64.
Backside of the record was Aragon and Lusail, with simply 27 falls.
