Shoulder injury pushes Marc Marquez into his third...

Marc Marquez’s final MotoGP victory dates again to the San Marino Grand Prix in September 2025, simply weeks earlier than he sealed the world championship in Japan with a second-place end.

Lower than per week after Motegi, the Ducati rider was injured in Indonesia after being struck by Marco Bezzecchi, sustaining a proper shoulder damage that also impacts him as we speak. The incident introduced an abrupt finish to a exceptional run of 11 wins from the primary 16 races of the 2025 season, a part of one of many best comebacks in sporting historical past.

Marquez has not gained a race since that triumph on 14 September. He completed second at Motegi, was injured in Mandalika, and missed the ultimate rounds of 2025 in Phillip Island, Sepang, Portimao and Valencia. He has additionally been unable to interrupt Bezzecchi’s dominance within the 2026 season.

Throughout that span, wins have been shared between Francesco Bagnaia (Japan), Fermin Aldeguer (Indonesia), Raul Fernandez (Australia) and Alex Marquez (Malaysia), whereas Bezzecchi has claimed the opposite 5 – main each lap throughout Portimao and Valencia in 2025, in addition to Thailand, Brazil and the US in 2026.

Technically, Marquez has solely competed in 4 of these races – Japan 2025 and the opening three rounds of 2026 – and has didn’t win all 4. Nonetheless, in calendar phrases, 9 grands prix have handed since Misano, marking the third-longest winless streak of his profession.

 4 years within the wilderness

Marquez’s most tough interval started on 19 July 2020, when he suffered a severe arm damage at Jerez within the opening spherical of the COVID-affected season.

After present process two operations following an unsuccessful comeback try, he endured a run of 21 races with out a win earlier than returning to victory on the German Grand Prix in 2021.

Nonetheless, that was not his longest drought. After successful at Sachsenring in 2021, he wouldn’t stand on the highest step once more till the US and San Marino GPs later that yr, earlier than embarking on a good longer barren spell.

Between 2021 and 2024, Marquez went 53 grands prix with out a victory – the worst run of his profession. That interval included two additional surgical procedures, the final in June 2022 to appropriate a 32% rotation of the humerus in his proper arm.

In a bid to revive his profession, Marquez terminated his Honda contract early to hitch Gresini in 2024 and safe a Ducati experience. Even then, he wanted 11 races to say his first win with the Italian producer, which got here at Aragon.

Now, with 9 races with out a win, he’s enduring his second-worst drought since switching to Ducati equipment.

Uncharted territory post-injury

Previous to his 2020 damage, Marquez’s report was considered one of exceptional consistency.

From his MotoGP debut in 2013 by means of to 2019, he gained six world titles with Honda and by no means skilled a winless streak similar to his present run. His worst sequence got here in 2015 – the one yr he didn’t win the championship – when he went six races with out victory between Austin and Sachsenring.

In 2013, 2016 and 2017, he additionally went winless between the US and German grands prix, though these stretches solely coated 5 races every.

 Caught on 99 wins

Marquez’s victory at Misano final yr was his 73rd in MotoGP and the 99th of his profession throughout all lessons (10 in 125cc and 16 in Moto2).

Since then, the milestone a hundredth win has remained elusive. He was unable to realize it when he sealed the 2025 title in Japan, and within the three alternatives he has had to this point in 2026.

He could have one other probability to each break his winless streak and attain that landmark on the upcoming Spanish Grand Prix.

Nonetheless, a number of components stand in his method. Marquez continues to be recovering from his shoulder damage, Ducati has but to completely unlock the potential of its 2026 bike, and each Bezzecchi and Jorge Martin have emerged as formidable forces on the entrance.

Jerez, in the meantime, has not historically been considered one of Marquez’s strongest circuits. Since his world championship debut in 2008, he has raced there 16 instances throughout all classes, taking simply three wins — in 2014, 2018 and 2019.

Even final yr, regardless of his dominant kind on the manufacturing unit Ducati, victory eluded him, along with his brother Alex Marquez as a substitute claiming his maiden premier-class win on the circuit.

Marc Marquez’s longest winless streaks

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