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| Jorge Lorenzo Says Marc Marquez’s Mental Strength Is Unbelievable After Winning 2025 MotoGP Title. |
Three-time MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo has praised Marc Marquez, calling his mental strength “unbelievable” after the Spaniard clinched the 2025 MotoGP world title with Ducati.
The 32-year-old rider ended a six-year title drought when he secured his seventh premier class championship last month at the Japanese Grand Prix. The victory marked the peak of Marquez’s long road to recovery following a serious injury in 2020.
His bold decision to leave an uncompetitive Honda team at the end of 2023 and join Gresini Racing with a year-old Ducati bike in 2024 turned out to be the right move.
As of the Indonesian Grand Prix, Marquez has claimed 11 Grand Prix wins and 14 sprint victories, becoming one of only three riders in history to achieve seven or more MotoGP world titles.
During the 2010s, Marquez and Lorenzo were fierce rivals. Marquez famously beat the three-time world champion in the 2013 title showdown. The two also briefly shared a garage as teammates at Honda in 2019, though Lorenzo struggled significantly and retired at the end of that season.
When asked by TNT Sport during the Indonesian Grand Prix to comment on Marquez’s 2025 championship, Lorenzo described it as pure “mathematics.”
“It’s unbelievable, the power in his mind,” Lorenzo said.
“How strong he is mentally is amazing. He’s strong physically, strong mentally, and strong technically. As I’ve always said, a guy who enters MotoGP in 2013 as a rookie and wins the world title in his first year clearly has immense talent.
He’s still the best at 32 years old and now has the best bike. So, it’s mathematics.”
Unfortunately, Marquez won’t be able to break his personal record of 13 wins in a single season (set in 2014) after suffering a shoulder injury in a first-lap collision with Marco Bezzecchi at the Indonesian Grand Prix.
Ducati has confirmed that Marquez will miss the next two rounds in Australia and Malaysia. If he returns for the final two races of the season, he’ll only have a chance to match his previous win record.
Test rider Michele Pirro will replace Marquez for the Australian Grand Prix, though Ducati has not yet announced who will stand in for him at Sepang, Malaysia.
