#8ball: Marquez makes it a magic eighth world title

Marc Marquez (Repsol Honda Crew) is now an eight-time World Champion, with the quantity 93 combating off Fabio Quartararo for victory at Buriram to precise the 2019 MotoGP™ World Championship in some extreme style. The crown makes Marquez the youngest ever six-time premier class Champion, taking the legend from Giacomo Agostini, and the youngest eight-time World Champion, taking the legend from Mike Hailwood. Marquez has also joined Valentino Rossi and Giacomo Agostini as one of expedient three riders to be pleased taken six or extra premier class World Championships after taking the crown in 2019.

Marquez’ upward push to legend-breaker started within the 125 Championship in 2010, two years after making his debut on the realm stage at 15. From podium success as a rookie in that debut season, the quantity 93 rose to opt the crown in 2010 – and he won ten of the ultimate 14 races of the three hundred and sixty five days on his formulation to that first title.

2011 noticed Marquez bag the pass to Moto2™. Though the first phase of the season develop to be once punctuated by crashes, it all seemed to click on and after his first safe within the class, one develop to be seven. Marquez develop to be once the man with the momentum as he closed down the hole to Championship chief Stefan Bradl, even taking a podium from 38th on the grid after a penalty at Phillip Island. A fracture in discover for the Malaysian Huge Prix would extinguish his charge, on the opposite hand, because the quantity 93 suffered issues with his eyesight and develop to be once compelled to forfeit the remainder of the season and the likelihood at the crown.

The following iciness develop to be once a caring one as Marquez sought to cure the disaster, and surgery lastly received him reduction to combating fit for 2012. He came out swinging and develop to be once the pacesetter from the off, taking the Championship standard – at the side of a safe from the aid within the season finale in Valencia. From there, the premier class beckoned for 2013. 

No person will ever omit Marquez’ debut in MotoGP™. A foremost podium first time out develop to be a foremost safe 2nd time out, and he went on to develop to be the youngest rider to clinch the premier class crown after an shiny rookie season. He develop to be once also the first rookie to entire the feat in 35 years. But 2013 develop to be once expedient a style of what develop to be once to attain, with Marquez’ march thru the legend books continuing the three hundred and sixty five days after. 

Victory within the first ten races gave him an unassailable lead, and he retained the crown at the Twin Ring Motegi. 2015 started smartly with a safe within the Americas GP once extra, but the season develop to be once punctuated by about a extra u.s.a.and downs and Marquez misplaced the title for the first – and up to now expedient – time since sharp up to MotoGP™. The extinguish of the season develop to be once dramatic in itself too, because the quantity 93 clashed with Valentino Rossi and Rossi’s then-teammate Jorge Lorenzo emerged victorious within the Championship.

2016 noticed the Spaniard on a extreme mission to make certain he took reduction the throne, adjusting his approach and using to bewitch the title and now no longer merely to safe races and his new methodology to the season noticed him ready to once extra wrap up the crown in Japan on Honda’s home turf. 2017 didn’t rather drag to conception within the originate, on the opposite hand, because the reigning Champion suffered a DNF in Argentina and had already recorded his third 0 of the campaign by Le Mans. Insurmountable? Despite the categorical efforts of key rival Andrea Dovizioso taking him to the wire – and the 2 staging about a of the expedient duels in contemporary MotoGP™ history – it develop to be once a mountain Marquez develop to be once ready to climb. That develop to be once title quantity six, and his fourth within the premier class.

Then started 2018 and the long boulevard from Qatar to Valencia develop to be once reset once extra. Fireworks within the barren region as ‘DesmoDovi’ came out swinging noticed their competition reignite and the Italian would once extra show Marquez’ closest challenger. Marquez came out on high but there were hurdles on the formulation – a hotly-debated Argentina gallop that noticed the quantity 93 bag three penalties, a resurgent Jorge Lorenzo, extra ultimate nook lunges on Dovizioso – but by Japan Marquez had pulled certain and once extra took the Championship on Honda’s home turf at Motegi.

2019 shall be Marquez’ expedient season but. It started with but every other ultimate nook defeat to Dovizioso, but subsequent up Argentina develop to be once deliver domination to situation a tone – even supposing the one hiccup of the three hundred and sixty five days came lawful after as Marquez crashed within the Americas GP. He bounced reduction at Jerez and Le Mans to safe two on the bounce, on the opposite hand, and expedient misplaced out at Mugello by hundredths sooner than he develop to be once reduction on the discontinue step at Catalunya.

The person late him there would show a presence for the remainder of the Championship: Fabio Quartararo. But despite a season of incredible opponents and races, the principle to Marquez’ success in 2019 has been consistency: even when overwhelmed by Maverick Viñales at Assen, out-duelled by Dovizioso in Austria or Alex Rins at Silverstone; the times he didn’t bewitch the victory, the quantity 93 kept raking within the substances and podiums. And he did safe duels, at the side of that which within the extinguish secured him the crown in Thailand – combating off that very same Quartararo at the ultimate nook.

So after an shiny season up to now – because it’s now no longer even over but – Marquez is topped World Champion for the eighth time and the sixth within the premier class with 9 wins, 14 podiums, and a entire host of new info for a man who already owns so many.

The 2019 MotoGP™ World Champion is Repsol Honda Crew’s Marc Marquez.