Gold & Goose/Red Bull Content Pool

He?s not even 30 and he?s already one of the most successful motorcycle racers of all time. After a meteoric rise through the ranks of motorcycle grand prix racing, he made his debut in MotoGP in 2013, and with the exception of 2015 and 2020, has been pretty bloody dominant ever since. But what?s going on" How is it that the Repsol Honda-riding-Spaniard has been able to make the opposition look daft so many times" He?s been doing it since his premier class debut, back when he was a spotty teenager. Is he some sort of demi-god" Has he been sent from the future" Is Marc Marquez special"

There?s no doubt that the now, devastatingly handsome athlete has brought a soupcon of something seriously special to the MotoGP grid, but is that ?special something? really exclusive to the gammy-armed 28 year old" Or has 2020 taught the rest of the grid that MM93 is only human after all"
Let?s have a look at what happened in 2020, shall we" Don?t worry, I?m not talking about the dreaded coronavirus. I?m talking about the MotoGP championship, which was one of the closest, hardest fought in a long time. And not just by a couple of characters at the front of the field, but by nearly half of them. In 2020, there were 9 MotoGP race winners, in 2019 there were only 5. Marquez took 12 wins for himself. And if he didn?t win, he came second (apart from in America, when he DNF?d).

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