Marc Marquez has been through his fair share of accidents and it’s part of what makes him one of the most experienced riders on the 2025 MotoGP grid.
The upcoming Italian Grand Prix at Mugello is a circuit that he has only ever won at once, during his dominant 2014 season, where he was victorious in each of the first 10 races for Honda that year.
That campaign alone serves as a reminder of Marquez’s extraordinary talents, and he’s aiming to add another crown to his collection this year, where he might become the oldest premier class champion in history.
There’s a long way to go in the MotoGP season, but his turnaround from a devastating crash at Jerez in 2020 has been remarkable. To come back from that and win a title again would be something special.
Marquez broke an incredible 10-year feat recently by topping every session in a weekend for the first time since the 2015 German Grand Prix – an achievement also managed by himself.
In recent times he has become more prone to mistakes, with Marquez now ‘desperate’ to avoid crashing. At Aragon, he was clearly not pushing at 100% in a bid to make the end.
Marc Marquez felt ‘afraid’ on a MotoGP bike after ‘very serious’ 2013 Italian Grand Prix crash
Strangely, Marquez was the ‘happiest’ MotoGP rider for crashing at Silverstone this season, even though it may have cost him a better result.
However, he’s not always delighted to go to ground. Back in his rookie season, he suffered a massive crash at Mugello which led to him jumping off his bike.
He once told Paddock GP that he was ‘afraid’ after going off the circuit at high speed and heading towards a wall during Friday practice.
“The crash that affected me the most was seven years ago at Mugello, because I was heading into a wall at 300 km/h. It was the only time I was afraid,” said Marquez.
“In a tenth of a second, I decided to jump off the bike. Balancing risk and outcome is always difficult. I will always look for the limit, it’s my mentality and my DNA.
“At 11 years old, I was already on a 125cc at 220 km/h. I don’t like to talk about it, but something very serious could have happened.”
What happened to Marc Marquez for the rest of the 2013 Italian Grand Prix weekend?
The start of Marquez’s debut outing at Mugello was far from ideal, and the rest of the weekend wouldn’t go much better for him either.
With three laps to go in the race, he slid wide and into the gravel trap, bringing his miserable race and event to an end. It was his first ever MotoGP retirement.
It left him 26 points behind teammate Dani Pedrosa in the standings, which was a long way to come back from for a rookie.
He didn’t suffer another retirement for the rest of the season and would go on to enjoy a very good run of form thereafter, claiming the title in his rookie campaign.
