MotoGP - Marc Marquez makes MotoGP history!? These riders were even more dominant during the summer break

The 2025 MotoGP season, from Austin to Silverstone, seemed quite varied at times, with five different Grand Prix winners in a row. But since the Aragon GP in early June, one rider in particular has left his mark on the 2025 MotoGP season: Marc Marquez, of course. The Spanish superstar has won every race since then, scoring the maximum number of points (37) five times in a row.

Marquez now begins the 2025 summer break with 381 points to his credit, already leading his brother Alex by a full 120 points in the World Championship . A gigantic lead, however, is hardly unparalleled in the MotoGP era since the class's inception in 2002. Jorge Lorenzo, Casey Stoner, or even Marquez himself never entered the summer break with a larger buffer, but one other rider did.

As could be expected, this is MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi . The 'Doctor' already had 236 points in the 2005 season after the tenth race of the season at the Sachsenring, where he celebrated his eighth victory of the season. He had only failed to win at Estoril (P2) and Laguna Seca (P3). The consequence: a 120-point lead over the then World Championship runner-up, Marco Melandri. A gap that hasn't been surpassed since, and was just equalized by Marquez this season.

However, there are crucial differences between Marquez's 2025 season and Rossi's 2005 season. Firstly, the 2005 summer break began after the tenth Grand Prix, not the twelfth. Secondly, sprints were also held in 2025, which of course didn't exist in 2005. Therefore, one cannot claim that Marquez and Rossi were equally dominant despite having an identical points lead at the summer break. If one considers the percentage advantage over the second-placed rider in the World Championship for the sake of better comparability, a different picture emerges. Then Marquez's 2025 season is still very strong, but by no means historic. See for yourself here:

With 381 points under his belt, Marquez enters this summer's break with a 31.5 percent lead over his brother Alex. This puts him in fifth place in the overall ranking of all 24 MotoGP seasons. The curious thing is that he was already more dominant in 2014, achieving a 34.2 percent lead over his then-Honda teammate Dani Pedrosa after nine wins in nine Grand Prix races. Even with that, Marquez is still only in fourth place in the rankings.

His compatriot Jorge Lorenzo was even narrower in the 2010 season, having already amassed a 72-point lead over Pedrosa by the summer break, giving him a percentage advantage of 34.3 percent. However, Lorenzo's performances up until the summer break are nowhere near the two most dominant performances. In MotoGP's inaugural year, Rossi established a percentage lead of 43.6 percent over Tohru Ukawa, and in 2005, he even managed to build a percentage lead of 50.8 percent, a lead that remains even remotely unmatched to this day. With 236 points, he had more than doubled the number of points by the summer break as his closest rival, Melandri (116).

Marquez certainly won't be able to keep up with that in 2025. Nevertheless, the impressive and exceptional performances of the number 93 this year should not be underestimated. Even now, on paper, the Ducati star doesn't need another win until the end of the season to become world champion. Second-place finishes in each of the last 20 races [ten sprints and ten GPs each] are enough for him to finish at the top. If Marquez continues his winning streak, he could theoretically clinch the title as early as Misano (September 12-14) – the 16th of 22 scheduled Grands Prix, with twelve races to go...