
2024 FIM MOTOGP GRAND PRIX WORLD CHAMPION
Winner of the FIM Red Bull MotoGP™Rookies Cup in 2014 and FIM Moto3™World Champion four years later, Spain’s Jorge Martin–Ducati cannot be accused of cutting any career corners on his way to the FIM MotoGP™Grand Prix World Championship this year.
Runner-up in 2023 behind Francesco Bagnaia–Ducati, this seasonall the pieces of the puzzle came together and the twenty-six-year-old from Madrid ended the Italian’s hopes of completing a hat-trick of titles when he put the championship destination beyond doubt at the twentieth and deciding round in Barcelona in the middle of November.
A solid start to his campaign in Qatar in March setthe scene for a year-long battle with Bagnaia and for the next eight months the battle raged acrossfour continents and sixteen countries with Martin taking the lead at round two in Portugal, losing it to Bagnaia in Germany and then regaining it at the next roundin Great Britain at the beginning of August.
Leading by twenty-four points heading into the final round on home ground at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, third in the Sprint race left him needing ninth or above for the title and he sealed the deal in second.
PALMARES
MotoGP World title - 2024
Moto3 World title – 2018

2018 FIM MOTO3 WORLD CHAMPION
MAGIC MARTIN COMES OUT ON TOP
Jorge Martin (Honda) sealed the FIM Moto3 World Championship in style with his seventh victory of the season at the penultimate round in Malaysia. Martin was a frontrunner throughout the season but the Spaniard had to weather the ups and downs of a tense year of competition to come out on top against key rivals Marco Bezzecchi (KTM) and Fabio Di Giannantonio (Honda).
Martin made his debut on the world stage in 2015 but emerged as a serious title threat two years later, when he picked up the first of nine podiums in the opening round of 2017 in Qatar, as well as posting nine pole positions. After proving that the speed was there, a maiden victory in the final round at Valencia showed that he was ready to challenge for bigger things in 2018 and the 20-year-old did not disappoint.
The year began perfectly with victories in Qatar and Texas but incidents with other riders at Jerez and Le Mans resulted in two DNFs and threatened to undermine his season as Bezzecchi hit form. More wins at Mugello, Assen and Sachsenring sandwiched another zero in Catalunya before disaster struck at Brno as the Spaniard broke his left wrist in FP1. Incredibly, Martin returned to the track just a week later in Austria, taking a stunning podium finish in a race won by his great rival to keep himself in the hunt.
The pendulum continued to swing between Martin and Bezzechi, both riders collecting more wins and zeroes, before eventually a crash for the Italian at Phillip Island gave the Spaniard his title shot. Di Giannantonio had scored two wins and six podiums to keep himself in contention but after another incredible race, Martin pulled the pin to perfection and with Bezzecchi in fifth and Di Giannantonio sixth, he could celebrate an emotional title.
Jorge Martín is the fourth Honda rider to win the FIM Moto3 World Championship title and the third rider from Spain after Maverick Viñales, Álex Márquez and Joan Mir.
PALMARES
World title – 2018
