If time flies when you’re having fun, it must flash by when you’re winning. Just ask Marc Marquez. In just three and a half triumphant years, the MotoGP rider has zoomed through 49 Motorcycling World Championship races and this weekend, in Le Mans, the Spaniard will notch up his half-century. Here’s the rest of his career in digits...
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Marquez's name is often followed by the words, ‘the second youngest rider to...’ For example, he's the second youngest rider in MotoGP history to win a World Championship; he's the second youngest rider to climb on a World Championship podium (at the 2008 British Grand Prix); he's the second youngest rider to set a pole position (at the 2009 French Grand Prix). You get the picture.
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Mind you, Marquez does hold a few records all of his own, such as becoming the youngest ever MotoGP rider to win five consecutive races - the first man to do so since Valentino Rossi in 1997.
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Unlucky for some maybe, but not Marquez. The precocious Spaniard made his Motorcycling World Championship bow on that day in April, 2008, at the Portuguese Grand Prix. He was just 15 years and 56 days old.
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The number of points Marquez bagged on his way to winning the 125cc class World Championship in 2010. His swag of ten GP victories was just one shy of - yep - Valentino Rossi’s 1997 record.
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The day in March, 2011, that Marquez raced his first Moto2 Grand Prix, at the Losail Circuit in Qatar. He’s the sole rider of Monlau Competicion, a team run by his manager Emilio Alzamora. He's yet to notch up any points, something he’ll want to change at Le Mans this weekend.
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The number of world championship trophies Marquez has in the cabinet - not bad considering he's not even 19.
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The age Marquez climbed on his first bike. Amazingly, just three years later, when most boys are still terrified of removing their stabilizers, the Spaniard became the Catalan 50cc motocross champion. Looks like he started as he means to go on, and on, and on...
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