Ducati rider Marc Marquez boasts a 22-point lead over his Gresini star brother Alex Marquez in the 2025 MotoGP standings before the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
Northamptonshire will host the premier class in England this weekend in round seven of the 2025 MotoGP season, with Marc Marquez targeting only his second British GP victory so far. The Spaniard got his one win at Silverstone in 2014, plus podiums with P2 in 2013 and 2019.
Instead, Silverstone has often been a track which suits Alex Marquez better than his six-time MotoGP champion brother. The Gresini star likes the circuit’s long, flowing corners and won the Sprint Race at the 2023 British GP from third place on the grid whilst Marc finished 18th.
Marc Marquez is ‘even more tight’ with Alex Marquez after fighting for the 2025 MotoGP title
Alex will now hope to have the better of Marc at Silverstone in the 2025 British GP after the younger Marquez sibling lost ground in their championship fight last time out at Le Mans. A crash in the French Grand Prix helped Alex see his one-point lead become a 22-point deficit.
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Even Marc Marquez expects Alex will be the quicker brother at Silverstone due to the track’s characteristics suiting the 2014 Moto3 and 2019 Moto2 champion’s riding style. But fighting for a MotoGP title has only brought the brothers closer, rather than creating a potential rift.
Marquez said, via Crash: “It’s a pleasure to fight against my brother because if I fight against him and I lose, it stays in the family.
“But apart from [the] jokes, we know each other and the most important thing is that the situation in the championship didn’t change our relationship. We are even more tight than ever. I want the best for him and he wants the best for me.”
Marc Marquez can push in search of his first Silverstone win since 2014 after Alex Marquez’s Le Mans crashes
Alex Marquez crashed twice in the French GP as the 29-year-old twice got caught out by the changeable conditions at Le Mans. He first endured a highside at the Dunlop chicane around the mid-point of the race, before later crashing at Turn 11 trying to push despite his damage.
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His second incident resulted in the Gresini rider failing to finish a Grand Prix for the first time in 2025, straight after Alex Marquez won his first MotoGP race at Jerez two weeks earlier. He maintained the Spaniard’s run of finishing every Sprint Race in second place so far this term.
But Marc Marquez became the first MotoGP rider to win six Sprints in a row at Le Mans last time out, and heads to Silverstone knowing the Cervera native can now push the limits with a 22-point buffer between himself and Alex in search of his first Grand Prix win since Qatar.
