After six races he took the runner-up position behind his teammate. He signed for the RACC Impala team, with Pol Espargaró as his teammate. In 2004 Marc jumped to the 125cc class with a Honda 125 GP. Marc changed to the big circuits in 2003 by taking part in the Open RACC 50, a six-race Catalan Championship, and he won the title with an overwhelming performance in his first year. He continued competing in motocross but began shifting his focus to road racing. In 2002 Marc finished third in the Conti Cup, a road racing series promoted by the Catalan Motorcycling Federation. In 2000, although he continued competing in enduro, he was also runner-up in the Catalan Motocross Championship, and in 2001, he took another step forward and won the Catalan Championship of the Initiation motocross category. In 1999, his father bought him a second-hand 50cc off-road pocket bike, on which he continued to enjoy enduro and also began in motocross. He would have preferred to race motocross, but there wasn’t a class for kids his age at the time. In 1998, when he was 5, he participated in the Enduro for Kids, in the Initiation category. At age 4, Marc asked for a motorbike for Christmas, and with the aid of training wheels, he had his first riding experience, going with his father to an industrial area near their house. Marc has always lived in Cervera, a small town near the capital of the province where he resides with his parents and brother Alex.

On 17 February 1993, a future champion was born in Lleida, Spain.

In 2020 Marquez endured his most difficult season to date, injured at the first race and missing the rest of season. Marc was also the first rider in the 69-year history of grand prix motorcycling to win at least five races a season for eight years in a row. At 24 years and 268 days old, Marquez took the record from Mike Hailwood, who was 25 years and 107 days old when he won his fourth premier-class title in 1965. In 2017 Marquez won his fourth MotoGP world championship in five years after his only rival Andrea Dovizioso crashed out of the season-ending race in Valencia. The 2016 MotoGP World Championship crowned Marc as the youngest rider to win 3 premier-class World Championships, bringing his tally to 5 titles over all classes in a GP career just 9 seasons long. The 2015 season was Marquez’s most challenging year in MotoGP as he finished third, but he still managed five victories, nine podium finishes and eight pole positions. During the 2014 season, he totaled 13 victories - the most premier-class wins in a single season, bettering the mark set by fellow Repsol Honda rider Mick Doohan in 1997. Marquez is a eight-time World Champion (1 each in the 125cc and Moto2 classes, plus six in MotoGP), and was the youngest rider ever to be crowned king of the premier class.

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