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Márquez in 2016
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Nationality | Spanish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cervera, Catalonia, Spain |
17 February 1993 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current team | Repsol Honda Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bike number | 93 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marc Márquez Alentà (born 17 February 1993) is a Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and three-time MotoGP world champion. Márquez races for Honda's factory team since his MotoGP debut in 2013. He is one of four riders to have won world championship titles in three different categories, after Mike Hailwood, Phil Read and Valentino Rossi.
Márquez won the 2010 125cc World Championship, the 2012 Moto2 World Championship, and the 2013, 2014 and 2016 MotoGP World Championships. Márquez became the first rider since Kenny Roberts in 1978 to accomplish the premier class title in his first season, and the youngest to win the title overall. He defended his title, winning the 2014 championship with three rounds to spare. During that title run Márquez won ten races in a row. He is the older brother of 2014 Moto3 world champion Álex Márquez. Márquez equalled the all-time Grand Prix record for pole positions at the age of 23 in 2016. Márquez secured the 2016 title with three rounds to spare at Motegi.