Marc Márquez is the undisputed dominator of the 2025 MotoGP season. The 32-year-old Spaniard has strung together a streak of victories, both in the main GPs and in the Sprints, putting a serious lock on the title right from the opening rounds.
He had already done it in 2014 and 2019 with Honda, but back then, thanks also to the Honda RC213V – quite different from the Ducati Desmosedici GP25 he rides this year – his riding style was different, especially under braking: at times Márquez would slide the rear to recover time in hard braking zones, while in other moments he would brake so hard on the front that the rear wheel lifted off the ground.
The Márquez of today, however, rides much cleaner, as he has often pointed out himself: “After my injuries I can no longer afford to ride aggressively for many laps. I had to adapt my style to my new physical condition. Now I am smoother and also faster.”
All this while pushing much less compared to the years on the Japanese machines, even though on both bikes he has always relied on Brembo braking components.
His superiority has taken some of the excitement out of the championship, but it’s not an exception in premier class history, since from time to time we’ve witnessed riders who have “killed” the championship from the very start, continuing to rack up points until the end of the season.
Since the number of GPs per season has multiplied over the decades, with the addition of Sprints in 2023, and the points system has also changed several times, it would make little sense to directly compare the raw points scored by different riders year by year.
To normalize this, we decided to calculate the percentage of points earned by the world champion compared to the maximum available each season.
The 2005 season of Valentino Rossi was his 5th consecutive premier class title, his 2nd with Yamaha, but his 7th with Brembo, which had already been alongside him in 125 and 250. Seventeen rounds, with Rossi on the podium in 16 of them: the only exception, a crash in Japan. For Valentino, 11 wins, 3 second places and 2 thirds, totaling 367 points out of a possible 425: 86.35%.
In 1963, the 500cc World Championship was made up of 8 rounds, but only the best 5 results counted.
On the MV Agusta, Mike Hailwood opened with victory at the Tourist Trophy with over a minute’s advantage, but retired at Assen.
Mike the Bike bounced back by winning the remaining 6 races: 48 points out of 56, equal to 87.50%.
The last dominant season of Marc Márquez with Honda, before his string of serious injuries, was 2019.
Out of 19 races, he finished on the podium 18 times: the only failure came at his beloved Austin, where he crashed due to a technical issue. He scored 12 wins and 6 second places, racking up 420 points out of 475, for an impressive 86,01%.
2002 marked the shift from 500cc to MotoGP: the move from two-strokes to four-strokes also had consequences on the braking systems, redesigned for higher power and weight.
Honda lined up the stunning RC211V, ridden by Valentino Rossi: 11 wins (8 in the first 9 rounds), 4 second places, and a DNF at Brno due to a tire failure. 355 points out of 400: 88.75%.
The following year still saw Rossi on Honda, in what would be his last season with them.
The Doctor achieved a clean sweep of podiums: 16 in 16 rounds, unmatched in the modern era. Also a record: 12 fastest laps in races.
He took 9 wins, but only 3 in the first 9 rounds, alongside 4 second places and 2 thirds, for 357 points and 89.25%.
1994 was Mick Doohan’s breakout year, reborn after his 1992 Assen crash thanks to the Brembo thumb master cylinder, which allowed him to operate the rear brake with his left thumb, compensating for his impaired right leg.
The Australian finished all 14 races on the podium, with 9 wins (6 in a row mid-season), 3 second places and 2 thirds, for 317 points out of 350: 90.57%.
Three years later Doohan raised the bar again, still on the NSR500 with Brembo carbon brakes. The Australian was a steamroller: 12 wins in the first 13 races, with a second at Jerez behind Alex Crivillé.
He was also second in Indonesia, edged out by Okada by just 69 thousandths, and in the final round at Phillip Island he crashed out while leading. He ended with 340 points out of 375: 90.67%.
The most successful rider of all time could not be missing: ladies and gentlemen, Giacomo Agostini, the only man to have won 8 premier class titles.
In 1970 the 500cc championship had 11 rounds, but only the best 6 counted. Ago and MV Agusta were inseparable, winning the first 10 GPs.
He skipped the last one. 150 points out of 165: 90.91%.
In 1959, the 500cc championship had 7 rounds. John Surtees on MV Agusta didn’t just win, he dominated: gaps of 91 seconds in France, over 5 minutes at the TT, nearly 2 minutes at Assen, just under in Belgium, 1’14’’ at Monza, 29 seconds in Ulster, and “only” 14 seconds in Germany. 7 wins, though only 4 counted. 100%.
With Mike Hailwood moving to cars, in 1968 Honda left two-wheel racing.
MV Agusta and Giacomo Agostini seized the chance, a cut above the rest: they won all 10 GPs, and in three of them – Nürburgring, Sachsenring, and Imatra – they even lapped the entire field.
A mix of unmatched performance and bulletproof reliability.
Brembo was not present on the bikes of the top 3 in this ranking, having only debuted in the 500cc class in 1976.
However, for a decade now Brembo has achieved 100% of the points in MotoGP, since since 2016 every team in the premier class has relied exclusively on Brembo brakes, even without regulatory obligation.
And Márquez?
At this stage of the 2025 season (following the San Marino and Riviera di Rimini Grand Prix), Marc Márquez has collected 86.01% of the points available.
With several rounds still to go, the Spaniard is now closing in on matching – or even surpassing – the 88.42% points haul he achieved over the full season back in 2019.