Marc Márquez
Marc Márquez ALENTA (born 17 February 1993 Cervera, Spain ) is a Spanish motorcycle racer and World Champion in MotoGP class.
In the motorcycle world championship in 2013 Márquez started in MotoGP for the Repsol Honda Team. Marquez is the youngest champion in the highest motorcycle class, he is also the first rookie since 1978, which won a world title.
- 2.1 Title
- 2.2 In the World Motorcycle Championship
- 2.3 Grand Prix wins
Career
Early years
Marc Márquez began with six years of his racing career in motocross and mini bike. Only later he switched to road racing. After a few appearances in the Spanish championship he he was graduated with the eighth overall in 2007 make Alberto Puig attention to themselves, who took him along with Esteve Rabat in 2008 for Repsol KTM in the 125cc class of the MotoGP World Championship under contract.
125 cc World Championship
2008 Márquez competed in the 125cc class of the Motorcycle World Championship. The season had for Márquez can start by an injury later and they also ended prematurely by a serious accident in Malaysia. He had sustained injuries to the cartilage around the shin around. At the end of the season Marquez had a podium and several top ten results on its credit side. He ended up with 63 points at No. 13 of the World Cup overall standings. His compatriot and team-mate Esteve Rabat ended up with 49 points, just one place behind.
In his second season Marquez succeeded in the 125cc KTM Team Red Bull finished third in Jerez only a podium finish. But he drove out nine top ten places and could thus reach eighth place in the overall standings, which meant an increase of five places compared to last year. He had his teammates, the Americans Beaubier Cameron, who finished 29th place, clearly in control. Because of the phase-out of KTM from the World Cup in late 2009 Marquez moved to Ajo Motorsport.
The 2010 season began Marquez with a new team and a Derbi alongside Sandro Cortese as a teammate and a third place at the Grand Prix of Qatar. After a failure at his home Grand Prix of Spain in the second race of the season and a third place in France he fell in the World Cup somewhat behind Nicolas Terol and Pol Espargaró. This residue he walked then with his first win in the Motorcycle World Championship at all the Grand Prix of Italy and four other directly afterwards up to the Germany Grand Prix, in which Terol injury could not start and Espargaró retired, in a 26 -point lead to Espargaró on after eight races. At the Grand Prix of the Czech Republic, he finished with a dislocated shoulder only seventh place, which was allowed to melt to 15 points his lead in the championship standings. At the next race in Indianapolis because he took a fall and a 20 second time penalty for abbreviating a chicane only to tenth place. At the end of the year Márquez was 17 years and 263 days, the second youngest 125cc World Champion.
Moto2 class
2011 Marc Márquez rose to the Moto2 class and drove for the team Catalunya Caixa Repsol. After the first three races still no championship points, he was after the sixth race, the Grand Prix of Great Britain at Silverstone already 82 points behind the championship leader Stefan Bradl. With series victories at Assen, Netherlands, at the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello, in Germany at the Sachsenring, as well as the Grand Prix of Indianapolis at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, San Marino at Misano and Aragon at Motorland Aragón, he reduced the deficit to six championship points and took over after finishing second at the Grand Prix of Japan at Motegi by a single point championship lead ahead of Bradl. By a self -inflicted training accident at the Grand Prix of Australia at Phillip Iceland relegated to the last place, Marquez lost the lead despite third place again to Stefan Bradl, who finished second. Due to injury, he could not compete in the last two races in Sepang and Valencia and lost the world title without a fight to Stefan Bradl.
2012 Marc Márquez was despite the injury he had suffered in the previous year, immediately winning the first race. He dominated the whole season. At the end of the season he had retracted nine wins, two second and three third places, being started twice from last place. He was able to secure the world title prematurely in Australia, after the last race, the Grand Prix of Valencia, he finally had a lead of 56 points in the overall standings. His great achievements in the Moto2 class made the Repsol Honda factory team attention to him, so that its owner made strong against the rookie rule, and this was finally abolished. He signed a two-year contract to replace the Australian Casey Stoner.
MotoGP class
For the opening race in Qatar in 2013 Márquez was behind the reigning World Champion Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi third. After pole position and victory in Austin, has been named in the latest Moto GP winner in history, he was second in Jerez. The fourth race of the Grand Prix of France at the Circuit Bugatti Márquez went again on pole and finishing third. The next Grand Prix of Italy, with whom he already had a fall with 338 km / h in training, he was also in the race. At his home Grand Prix in Spain, he finished third place. In Dutch TT Márquez was behind Rossi in second. On the Sachsenring he took again the pole position and victory. This was followed by another victory against Stefan Bradl at the U.S. Grand Prix at Laguna Seca. With his fourth victory in Indianapolis and the fifth in the Czech city of Brno Marquez extended his lead in the championship continues. In Australia, Márquez had recorded 0 points, because the high temperatures, the tires on a high wear of course fell victim and thereby held a flag - to-flag race for the first time. Here, the rules stipulated to change the bike from inside the 9th or 10th round. The rule has been misunderstood by the team, which Márquez went first in the 11th round in the box. On 10 November, he was in Valencia behind Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa third party, he won the points classification and became the youngest with 20 years and 266 days, world champion in the premier class. He broke the record of Freddie Spencer, the 21-year and 258 days old when he won the 500cc title in 1983 on a Honda.
Personal
His younger brother Alex Márquez starts in the Moto3 for the team Estrella Galicia. 2013 landed at number 4 this
Statistics
Title
- 2010 - 125 cc World Champion on Derbi
- 2010 - Michel Metraux Trophy for the best 125 cc driver
- 2011 - Michel Metraux Trophy for the best Moto2 rider
- 2012 - Moto2 world champion on Suter
- 2013 - MotoGP World Champion on Honda
- 33 Grand Prix wins
In the World Motorcycle Championship
(As GP of Qatar, March 23, 2014)