First Independent MotoGP champion

No MotoGP rider has ever tasted championship success on a satellite bike, but if Marquez can becom🐓e a champion with Gresini Ducati in 2024 that’s exactly what he will have achieved. 

• Ducati feared “a climate of tension” over Marc Marquez, Gresini boss ad൩mits 
• Ref﷽lections from inside Ducati after two key engineers moved💫 to Yamaha

Kenny Roberts, Marco Lucchinelli and F൲ranco Uncini all won premier class titles with limited equipment compared to f▨actory riders, however, winning with a satellite team has never been done in the MotoGP era.

Longest wait…

If Marquez wins the 2024 title, he will also become the rider who won the championship after the longest wait since h💧is last.

Great rivals Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo both tasted title success three years after winning a MotoGP championship, while Casey Stoner went four years between his title wi♑n at Ducati (2007) and his triumph at Honda (2011).

But if Marquez achieves title success this season he will have gone five yearℱs since his last championship win with Repsol Honda (2019). 

The records Marquez can equal include titles with two manufacturers and nine world titles

Marquez could join the likes of Geoff Duke, Giacomo Agostini, Eddie Lawson, Rossi and Stoner, wh✱o won two premier class titles with different manufacturers if he wins the title with Ducati.

Marquez could also join archnemisiꦡs Rossi by winning a ninth world title - seventh in MotoGP - which would put him tied for third for the most world championship wins behind Agostini (15) and Angel Nieto (13). 

Marquez, who has wo𝓡n at 20 different circuits, could also take over from Mick Doohan (24) at the top of that category in 2024.