The final round of the 2025 MotoGP championship series was held at the Valencia track this weekend. Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia) continued his good form with a start to both races from pole position.
Saturday’s Sprint saw Alex Marquez (Ducati) take the win ahead of Pedro Acosta (KTM) in second and Fabio Di Giannantonio (Ducati) in third. Bezzecchi managed fifth place after a technical problem ruined his start.
Bezzecchi bounced back on Sunday to take the win and lead every lap of the race. Alex Marquez ran in second place for much of the race before fading badly towards the end and finishing sixth. Raul Fernandez charged on his Aprilia to finish a close second to Bezzecchi, while Di Giannantonio finished third.
The currently-injured Marc Marquez (Ducati) clinched this year’s championship with several rounds remaining. His brother Alex finishes second in the championship, while Bezzecchi finishes third.
The riders and teams begin preparations for the 2026 season with an official practice day tomorrow at Valencia.
For full results and points for Saturday’s Sprint race, visit the MotoGP site here. For full results and points for Sunday’s MotoGP race, visit the MotoGP site here.
OK now, Am I the only one being hit with all sorts of ads within the comments body here ? ? ? WTF, over !
Speak. I need to know if this change is unique to my computers or area of residence.
Two words. Brave browser. No ads. Not even on YouTube. Disable the YouTube app on your phone and use Brave instead. It works on phones too. Life’s too short.
Thank you for the BB suggestion, my real concern is why this change now. I do not remember this crap ever being intrusive to the comments / blog area. I take offense to the corruption of a uniquely free and open forum.
All everywhere has gone to shit. Oh yea, bah humbug.
Been saying this many times. The website name should be changed to weekly or monthly, daily makes no sense. It made sense 10 years ago but times change.
WHY is there an automobile ad on the bottom of Terry says for November 19 and a scattering of crappy adds throughout entire blog event ?
Are you home Dirck, been about one month now for your ‘daily’ ?
I hope this intrusion of commercials is not the end.
I’m with Mick here, consistency counts.
when all the changes with new bikes come into effect (2027 i think) there will be a rider still, obviously, in his prime who was the last rider to dominate on such bikes without all of the latest and greatest technologies and rider aids. that would be MM93.
the narrative of MM93’s success in 2025 was his superior ability to adapt to the new bike and conditions.
I can’t imagine MM93 struggling for wins in 2027 if he decides to compete.
the last race of the year was pretty ho hum, seeing MM93 locked up the championship some 4 events earlier. The real story was how Bagnaia could fall again in the main, moving him to fifth in the championship behind Acosta. So many people, suggested at the beginning of the season, how MM93 would find it difficult to master the 26 Ducati, and how Bagnaia would be a serious threat. the real story, someday, is what happened to Bagnaia? is it the bike? was it him? its dog eat dog at the front, and next year everyone will be on new bikes, new aero, smaller engines, different without ride height devices, all in an effort to make the rider count more than all the nicknacks Ducati have created, and all the other had to copy to stay competitive. I cant wait.
I never understood why fans hold championships so dear. I’ve won a couple of amateur racing championships myself. I did it by showing up to all the races and getting good results in those races. Was I a clearly dominant rider? No. I stayed healthy and made time, as a guy who worked a rotating shift, to go to all the races. I did it two years in a row, 1999 and 2000. In 2000 I did it with an undiagnosed broken ankle, another rather long story. But Tech 8s being what they are. You’re kind of in a cast while wearing them anyway. In the end. I felt silly going to all the trouble just to get a plaque to hang on the wall.
This year Marquez was made to look like a clearly dominant rider. Mainly because Ducati suddenly started making a one guy bike. This was not like ’22 and ’23 where the first five guys all were on Ducati in a lot of races. That’s because Ducati had a great bike that made all the Ducati riders look like heros. For 2025 they made a bike that Bagnaia couldn’t ride to save his life, except in Japan after he was caught playing with a 2024 bike. The race after that he struggled not to come in dead last. That Bagnaia isn’t leaving Ducati is a mystery. The team is clearly not on his side.
I don’t understand why people are looking forward to 2027. The 800 era was the least popular time for everyone. The other changes are superficial. I understand that a lot of GP fans are tired of watching a Ducati show. But the same guys aren’t going to really enjoy it being a Ducati Aprilia KTM show either. There are a lot of people who think a racing series is supposed to be about Japanese manufacturers fighting for dominance. Sorry man. I can’t tell you why. But that ship has, at least for now, sailed.
“This year Marquez was made to look like a clearly dominant rider. Mainly because Ducati suddenly started making a one guy bike.”
This didn’t happen. Ducati made the best bike they could. Marquez made the best of it.
The reason Ducati no longer has a lock on the top-5 is that the lower ranked factories are all enjoying development concessions to help them catch up, just like Ducati had before they reached the front. If you look at the trajectory of results of the non-Ducati riders who are now in the mix, the improvement over the season is apparent. This is what a championship needs to look like if a variety of factories and sponsors are to remain invested.
I agree that 2027 is unlikely to be a reset. The results we see now are a reflection of each factory’s investment. I can’t see how changing the size of the cylinder bore, winglets or number of available gizmos will have any effect on that. It’s more likely to come down to who nails down the tire supplier change the best.
Sorry Dave. But Bagnaia ran well on every Ducati that he sat on until 2025 and Di Giannantonio took all year to have his usual moments of brilliance. The 2025 bike is a turkey for anyone but Marquez. They either did that deliberately or they have suddenly become much less competent. If I were Bagnaia I would ride for Aprilia next year even if I had to do it for free. Last I checked, he should be able to coast on the financial front for a little while.
Whatever, it’s my opion, which is worth the nothing you are paying for it. You have a snowball’s chance of changing it.
I think you have unrealistic expectations. Aside from a few very special riders, nobody ever has a whole career where it all works out every year. Pecco enjoyed it for a few years and now he and his crew are off track. It happens. Ducati aren’t dumb. They didn’t get where they are by chasing one rider’s ambitions. They know riders come and go, get injured, etc. Thry know Marquez is probably even more temporary. So yes, for reasons you and I don’t get to understand, they are less competent this year. Marquez has won on worse bikes. Maybe heks pretty good at this after al.
Got an excuse for everything eh? So Bagnaia and Di Giannantonio struggle most of the year until there is a big fluff over Bagnaia testing a 2024 bike. The very next race in Japan he wins convincingly. I don’t believe in coincidence. The race after that he’s struggling not to be dead last. Then like the Honda rides of the recent past he’s crashing all over the place.
They’re playing games with his safety. I don’t know why he trusts them enough to suit up and ride their garbage. I certainly wouldn’t.
I’d say that I’ll never buy another Ducati. But all they make are ride by wire bikes anyway. They ceased to exist by choice like most of the rest of the street bike market. Flash news market. Low mile used bikes come around every day and added weight and complexity are not upgrades. Goofy industry can’t even compete with its former self. Polaris seemeps to have figured that out and sold Indian. Maybe that’s why KTM overproduced so radically and all but killed themselves. The industry has no future. They don’t sell motorcycles anymore. It’s all about electronics packages and TV screens now. The race for mechanical excellence has been abandoned. What’s the big news on the mechanical front now? A V-3 with an electric blower and lopsided bodywork? That would have been laughable forty years ago. Today it’s just sad.
congrats on your 1999 and 2000 seasons.
I do appreciate a close points title fight (final race deciding the Champion) but at the same time those seasons feel like a very long watch.
it’s also exciting to see someone dominate a season once in a while.
in 2015, had MM93 finished in at least 6th in the few races he DNF’d, he’d have won the title. I think he learned from that.
I’d heavily wager that MM93 was very much more hungrier/motivated to win the 2025 than Pecco though and what happened happened.
Mick, from reading your reply, you dont seem to understand a lot?
I just don’t consume things the way that the “they” would like me to.
You have to remember that I see MotoGP as sort of a TV show built on the ashes of a racing series. It’s not quite as ridiculous as NASCAR yet. But they’re working on it. All they need now is for Marquez to die from a crash that he caused by deliberately making contact with another rider. Then the faithful could “do it for Marc” and plaster his number all over everything.
MotoGP is like the current pickup truck market. It’s what happens when you let the car people get their hands on something they know nothing about. NASCAR sells cars. And now nobody buys cars. MotoGP sells sport bikes. And now nobody buys sport bikes. MotoGP did a very impressive job of destroying the very market for what they are attempting to advertise much faster than NASCAR did. When MotoGP was invented in 2002 the sport bike market was huge. Buy 2012 it was bleeding badly. By 2017, well, put a fork in it. The same thing happened to dirt bikes. 2002 rolled around and it very effectively killed the woods bike market. You would be amazed at the number of times I would go to Minnesota to ride with my buds and we would be the only eight or ten guys, youngest about 55, at the trail head at Akeley. 100 miles of some of the best single track there is. But, you know, they’re selling four strokes now. Those things are awful in the woods. Oddly enough, they keep getting worse. The current crop of four strokes marketed to woods riders flame out if you look at them wrong. They’re so awful that some of the trials bike manufacturers have jumped in to make a buck selling woods bikes. That’s hilarious. Heck, my next woods bike will probably be purchased from a traditional trials bike manufacturer. Them and Yamaha are the only people still making carbureted two strokes. And the Yamaha hasn’t received anything but bold new plastics since 2007. It’s the only one that’s still kick start only. Yabba dabba doo!
Remember when Al Gore’s wife was trying to ban rock and roll music? She would have been much more successful if she would have just made four stroke rock and let the industry kill itself. Imagine Jackyl doing the Lumberjack Song with a four stroke chainsaw. Nope! Gone. Done.
I made up a wild conspiracy because why not? My stories are ridiculous.
I didn’t come here and try to get people to believe me. My stories are ridiculous. I just make mine up.
You’re free to debunk any of my points. So far nobody has been able to explain to me why the 600cc sport bike went from best seller of any manufacturer who made one in 2002 to basically non-existent today. What changed that wasn’t support for AMA and WSB that could possibly have made such a radical change in the industry? The story I usually get is that the kids went sour. When I was a kid the older folks were certain that us late boomers had gone sour. Blaming bad things on the kids isn’t new. I have long thought it quite humorous that the people who complain about the kids are often the same people who are raising them. I didn’t have any kids myself.
Maybe you’re too young of a guy to have been really been watching things unfold at time. I was 41 and retired in 2002. I’ve had nothing better to do than watch history unfold these last 23 years.
Whatever, it’s my opion, which is worth the nothing you are paying for it. You have a snowball’s chance of changing it.
precisely and exactly nothing.
btw i retired in 1497 when i was 12 full moons old and have had nothing better to do for the past 200 centuries but watch history unfold to learn MotoGP is to blame for teenagers not buying $$$ motorcycles.
i’m never buying another umbrella again…no way you’ll ever change my mind!!!
“So far nobody has been able to explain to me why the 600cc sport bike went from best seller of any manufacturer who made one in 2002 to basically non-existent today. ”
I have explained it to you over and over again. If you can’t accept new information and adjust your view…
so far, nobody’s been able to explain to me why Gilligan’s Island went off the air. that show was the best…and then there was The Beverly Hillbillies; what the heck happened to that show…it went off the air too. I don’t get it!!! 6 Million dollar Man?! anybody?
That’s easy. Gilligan’s Island was pulled due to public safety concerns. Thrill seekers were regularly going to bars and shouting Mary Ann or Ginger! The resulting bar fights were landing too many people in the hospital. So the sudio pulled the plug.
The Beverly Hillbillies was pulled after Elly May demonstrated one too many feats of super human strength. Young men at the time became too afraid of her to lust after her and tuned out.
The 6 Million Dollar Man? Hello! He was a guy. A TV show cannot live on hot babe cameos alone.
that’s what i thought too but I can’t figure out what Pecco and Ducti have to do with all.