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Marc Marquez

Date of birth: 17/02/1993

Birthplace: Lleida – Catalonia – Spain

Hometown: Cervera

Hobbies: Mountain Bike, videogames

Nacionality: Spanish

Years as Repsol rider: 10 (including 2015)

Honours

First Race: 1998 “Enduro per nens”
First Grand Prix: 2008 Portugal GP (125cc)
First Podium: 2008 British GP (125cc)
First Win: 2010 Italian GP (125cc)
World Championships: 4 (125cc in 2010, Moto2 in 2012 and MotoGP in 2013 and 2014)
Total Grand Prix: 132 (46 in 125cc, 32 in Moto2, 54 in MotoGP)
Fastest laps: 46 (9 in 125cc, 7 in Moto2, 30 in MotoGP)
Poles: 58 (14 in 125cc, 14 in Moto2, 30 in MotoGP)
Podiums: 78 (14 in 125cc, 25 in Moto2, 39 in MotoGP)
Wins: 50 (10 in 125cc, 16 in Moto2, 24 in MotoGP)


Sporting career

1998

Beginnings in Enduro

1999

Participation in the Catalonian Enduro and Motocross Championships

2000

Runner-up at Catalonian Motocross-Beginners

2001

Champion of Catalonia in Motocross

2002

3rd at the Catalonian Road Racing Championship

2003

Champion Catalonia Open RACC 50 cc

2004

Runner-up at the Catalonian Road Racing Championship 125 cc

2005

Champion Catalonian Road Racing Championship 125 cc

2006

Champion Catalonian Road Racing Championship 125 cc and 8th Spanish Road Racing Championship (CEV)

2007

9th Spanish Road Racing Championship (CEV)

2008

13rd 125 cc World Championship

2009

8th 125 cc World Championship

2010

125 cc World Champion

2011

Runner-up Moto2 World Championship

2012 Moto2 World Champion
2013 MotoGP World Champion
2014 MotoGP World Champion

Biography

1993-2001

First steps (1993-2001)
A rider with such passion and talent for motorsport, Marc Marquez was always going to end up in the World Championship and seemed destined for titles from the start. He first raced in Grands Prix when he had just turned 15. His father was one of the thousands of fans who, year after year, travelled by motorbike to the Grand Prix held in Jerez. It is little wonder that when Marc Marquez was 4, he asked for a motorbike for Christmas and received his wish.

 

On February 1993, Czechoslovakia disappeared after 74 years and actress Audrey Hepburn had passed away some days before. On the 17th of that month, a future champion was born in Lleida. Young Marc has always lived in Cervera, a small town near the capital of the province where he lives with his parents and his brother Alex. Three years younger, his brother has followed in his steps and in 2012 won Spanish Championship (CEV).

 

When he was four, Marc Márquez asked for a motorbike for Christmas and, with two training wheels, he took his first steps with it. He would go with his father to an esplanade near their house, to an industrial area or even a friend’s field to practice before taking part in his first races. When he was five, he participated in the “Enduro for kids” in the initiation category. He would have preferred to practice motocross, a more fun competition where all the riders start at the same time and where he was able to put himself to test against other kids, without having to look at the times when the race is over. However, in motocross did not exist a class for his age at that time.

 

The following year, 1999, his father bought him a second-hand KTM 50, which he used to keep enjoying enduro and also to start in motocross. In 2000, although he continued competing in enduro, he was also runner up at the Motocross Catalan Championship and, a year later, he took another step forward and was Catalan Champion of the initiation category. He kept practising enduro, a discipline in which he finished fourth that year with a Kawasaki 65, already with gears.

2001-2003

2004-2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

 

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