Marc Marquez can clinch 2025 MotoGP title this weekend at Motegi

Marc Marquez can clinch the 2025 MotoGP world championship this weekend at the Japanese Grand Prix in Motegi, arriving with a 182-point lead over younger brother Alex Marquez and needing to outscore him by three points across the weekend to make the title mathematically unreachable. The factory Ducati rider has already turned a comeback from years of injury into one of the season's most dominant campaigns, and team and paddock attention has focused on whether he will seal the crown on Honda's home soil.

Marquez, 32, said he will approach the weekend as he always does, aiming to race for the win rather than simply collect points. "We will try to keep the same mentality and to close the Championship here," he told reporters, while also conceding the pressure of a possible title-clinching weekend. He has won 11 grands prix and 14 sprint races in 2025 and is on the verge of a seventh MotoGP crown and a ninth career world championship if his two lower-category titles are counted. The way those totals are framed is itself contested, with organisers reportedly emphasising premier-class titles in promotional material; Marquez said the numbers are not in his hands and that what matters...