12 + 1 riders who renewed their crown in MotoGP

Pecco Bagnaia This Sunday at Ceste, he becomes the 12th+1 rider in history to renew his crown in the star category, and the third time in the MotoGP era that he joins this select list of winners with 2 riders with whom he shared or shared the grid. Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez replace the prominent riders. He is also the first Ducati rider to reaffirm that accolade, and no one since Mick Doohan has reaffirmed that accolade in 1.

jeff duke

The British rider (1923-2015) won four 500cc crowns, his first in 1951, but things didn’t go his way with his first win in 1952 after Umberto Masetti took over the winners’ list. – he was seventh in Norton – but he did so when he rode Gilera and won three consecutive titles in 1953, 1954 and 1955.

John Surtees

The legendary British driver, 500cc F1 champion (1934-2017), did not go his way in his first defense of the title he won in 1956, but was overtaken by Libero Liberati for 3rd place in 1957. However, he went on to win three consecutive championships. He won the crown with MV Agusta in 1958, 1959 and 1960.

Mike Hailwood

The British ace (1941-1981) was the first rider to extend that crown in 500cc, winning four consecutive races for MV Agusta between 1962 and 1965, but has already lost five in a row. Whoever will replace him as the next big star in the championship will be the legendary ‘Ago’ who has moved to Honda.

Giacomo Agostini

The most successful rider of all time (1942) won the 500cc World Championship seven times in a row from 1966 to 1972, always riding MV Agusta, and since then he has also successfully reissued his first and subsequent laurels. did. After he finished third in 1973, losing out to MV Agusta’s new signing Phil Reid, he moved to Yamaha in 1974 and would win the title at the expense of the British in 1975. . And he will be the next champion in 1976, with an in-form Barry Sheene.

phil reed

The Englishman (1939-2022) defended the 500cc title he achieved in 1973, and eventually became MV Agusta’s new It became a benchmark. In 1974 he had no rival to renew his title, but in 1975 he encountered “Ago” and defeated him.

barry sheen

Britain’s last world champion (1950-2003) and the first champion with Suzuki, he led in style in 1976 and confidently renewed his crown in 1977, retaining his mythical number 7. However, he became the first person to give up his uniform number 1. He lost his crown in 1978. He left the team along with ‘Marciano’ Kenny Roberts, and the following year he left Suzuki’s official team believing he had less cutting-edge materials than his teammates.

kenny roberts

The American “Martian” (1951) was the first world champion to come from across the ocean with a new driving style that was later imitated. He won three consecutive races with Yamaha in 1978, 1979 and 1980, but was demoted to third place on the final podium in 1981 by Suzuki’s Lucchinelli and Mamola.

eddie lawson

The American (1958) won his first title in 1984 (Spencer won by 8 points in 1985), followed by his second title in 1986 (Gardner and Mamola beat him in 1987). Although the title was not updated after 2019, two titles were added in 2019. He was still with Yamaha in 1988, but signed with Honda the following year, renewing his contract.

Wayne Rainey

The American rider (born 1960) won three consecutive 500cc titles in 1990, 1991 and 1992, and on his way to winning his fourth consecutive title, he suffered a serious accident at Misano and lost his permanent title. He ended up using a wheelchair. He was runner-up, with Schwantz ahead of him in the standings.

mick doohan

The Australian (1965) won five consecutive 500cc titles from 1994 to 1998, but his winning streak was interrupted by a serious accident in Jerez in which he broke his right leg, and his teammate at Repsol Honda. He was succeeded by Alex Criville.

Valentino Rossi

The ace from Tavullia (1979) won his last crown in 500cc history (2001) and was still with Honda in the next MotoGP era in 2002 and 2003, and in 2004 and 2005. He had the honor of staying with Yamaha and renewing his title. In Cheste’s final race in 2006, he entered the race as the leader and unfortunately lost out on the title by five points to Hayden. He then won back-to-back titles in 2008 and 2009, but lost in 2010 to teammate Lorenzo, who also surpassed him in weight class.

Marc Marquez

In 2013, El Toro de Cervera (1993) became the youngest world champion in MotoGP history, and the following year he renewed his crown by winning the first ten races in one stretch in one of the most scintillating campaigns in history. After Lorenzo lost the “Sepang Gate” title to Rossi in 2015, Lorenzo held the title from 2016 to 2019, ceding it to Joan Mir in 2020 due to a long-term injury to his right arm. .

Francesco Bagnaia

The Piedmontese (1997) was a 12+1 rider in the star category and managed to renew the crown. He achieved it by putting number 1 on the fairing of his Ducati. In 2022, he achieved a historic comeback from a 91-point deficit, and in 2023, at the age of 26, he came from behind to win after a hard-fought battle with Jorge Martin.