Álex Márquez: MotoGP Career Stats, Results & 2026 Timing

There are two Márquez brothers on the MotoGP grid, and only one of them races under the number 73. Álex Márquez has spent the past few seasons stepping out of a very famous shadow, and in doing so he has built one of the more compelling careers in the current premier class. A Moto3 world champion, a Moto2 world champion, a Repsol Honda rookie, a Gresini Ducati race winner, and — as of 2025 — a genuine MotoGP championship contender. If you have only ever known him as "Marc's little brother," it is time to look at the results on their own terms.

Who Is Álex Márquez?

Álex Márquez is a Spanish rider from Cervera, Catalonia, currently competing in MotoGP for Gresini Racing aboard a Ducati Desmosedici GP. He races with #73, a number he has carried since his junior categories, and he is the younger brother of eight-time world champion Marc Márquez. But Álex's own résumé stands on its own: he is one of only a handful of riders to have won world titles in both Moto3 and Moto2 before moving up to the premier class.

His junior career highlights include the 2014 Moto3 World Championship and the 2019 Moto2 World Championship, the latter secured with a string of wins, podiums, and pole positions that made him one of the most feared riders in the intermediate class. That title earned him a seat alongside his brother at Repsol Honda for the 2020 MotoGP season — an extraordinary, and pressure-filled, way to start life in the premier class.

The Long Road Through Honda

Álex's rookie MotoGP season in 2020 was a mixed bag by design: the pressure of stepping into a factory Honda seat next to Marc, on a bike that was already becoming difficult to tame, produced flashes of real promise, including podium finishes early on. What followed, though, was a genuinely tough stretch. Between 2021 and 2022, riding for LCR Honda, Álex — like most of the Honda grid — struggled with an increasingly uncompetitive RC213V. Results were hard to come by, and it was a period that tested his resolve as much as his riding.

That patience paid off. The move to Gresini Racing and the Ducati Desmosedici GP ahead of the 2023 season turned out to be the turning point of his MotoGP career.

The Gresini Ducati Turnaround

On Ducati machinery, Álex Márquez found the competitive platform his talent had been missing. He clicked with the Desmosedici quickly, picking up Sprint race wins and returning to regular podium contention — proof that his junior-category speed had never gone anywhere, it simply needed the right bike underneath it.

That progression reached a new level in 2025, statistically the best MotoGP season of his career. Riding for Gresini, Álex racked up double-digit podium finishes across both Sprint and Grand Prix formats and claimed multiple Grand Prix victories, including a breakthrough premier-class win on home soil at the Spanish Grand Prix. He added further wins in Catalonia and Malaysia, and closed out the 2025 championship in a career-best runner-up position — his strongest points finish yet in MotoGP. That form was rewarded with a step up to factory-spec Ducati machinery for 2026, while he remains with the Gresini team and its BK8 colours.

Riding Style: Precision Over Bravado

Watch Álex Márquez for more than a couple of laps and a clear pattern emerges: he is a rider built on consistency and tidy corner work rather than outright, brake-marker-defying aggression. His strength has traditionally shown up in race pace management — staying within striking distance in the early laps and picking off rivals as tyres degrade, rather than gambling everything on a fast Saturday lap. It's a style that suits the demands of a 20-plus race MotoGP calendar, where the riders who protect their tyres and stay upright often out-score the ones chasing spectacular one-lap heroics. Sector by sector, that shows up as strong, repeatable mid-corner speed rather than one standout purple sector — which is exactly the kind of detail that live sector timing makes visible.

Standout Races

A few results stand out as defining moments in Álex's MotoGP story so far:

• 2025 Spanish Grand Prix — his first MotoGP victory on home soil, a milestone win in front of Spanish fans after years of chasing that breakthrough.
• 2025 Catalan Grand Prix — a commanding win at a circuit close to his hometown, further proof that his 2025 form was no fluke.
• 2025 Malaysian Grand Prix — a third 2025 win that cemented his status as a genuine title contender rather than a periodic podium finisher.
• The Márquez brothers' one-two — a genuinely historic afternoon when Álex and Marc finished first and second, a result widely reported as one of the first times siblings had topped a MotoGP podium together.

Two Márquez Brothers in MotoGP

No profile of Álex Márquez is complete without the storyline that follows him everywhere: he is racing at the same time, on machinery from the same manufacturer, as his older brother Marc — arguably the most decorated rider of his generation. For years, that comparison worked against Álex, framing every result relative to Marc's. But 2025 flipped the script. With both brothers on Ducatis and both finishing at the sharp end of the championship, the "two Márquez brothers" narrative became less about shadow and more about genuine, simultaneous competition — two riders from the same family, both capable of winning on any given Sunday, occasionally racing each other for position. It's a rare dynamic in top-level motorsport, and it's part of what makes tracking Álex's races, sector times, and results so compelling in real time.

The 2026 Season: Factory Bike, Interrupted Momentum

Álex Márquez started 2026 on factory-spec Ducati machinery, still under the Gresini Racing banner, and picked up an early-season Grand Prix win — a strong statement that his 2025 breakthrough was the new baseline rather than a one-off. The season has since been disrupted by injury: a heavy crash forced him out of action for several rounds, with Gresini calling on substitute riders to fill in while he recovered, and a further incident later in the season added to the setback. It's the kind of mid-season swing that makes live, session-by-session tracking genuinely useful — form and fitness can change the picture from one race weekend to the next, and the sector times tell that story before the championship table catches up.

Why Track Álex Márquez Live on MotoSector

Championship points only tell you the ending. If you want to understand how Álex Márquez actually wins races — where he gains time in the middle sector, how his pace compares to his brother's lap by lap, how a Sprint result sets up his Sunday race — you need live sector-by-sector timing, not just a final classification.

That's exactly what MotoSector is built for. Instead of waiting for the post-race summary, you can follow Álex Márquez's sector splits, gap-to-leader, and 3D track position as they happen, session by session, across the full MotoGP calendar.

Follow Álex Márquez Live

• MotoGP Calendar 2026 — every round of the season, so you know exactly when Álex Márquez is next on track.
• Live timing & 3D tracking — real-time sector times, gaps, and 3D circuit tracking for every session.
• Álex Márquez's rider page — his results, stats, and session-by-session timing data in one place.