2024 MotoGP season in numbers
- 0: Yamaha, Honda and KTM are the constructors without many of both sprint and main race wins in 2024
- 1: Maverick Viñales is the only non-Ducati rider to win any Grand Prix race in 2024 season, having won one race at Americas GP in COTA onboard with his Aprilia RS-GP
- 2: Martin became the 2nd Jorge to win premier class world title after Lorenzo in 2010, 2012 and 2015
- 2: Two Japanese manufacturers Yamaha and Honda suffered both winless and podiumless season in 2024, the worst ever since entered the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing premier class world championship in 1960
- 3: Jorge Martin won the 2024 MotoGP World Championship title with three Grand Prix wins at Portugal, France and Indonesia
- 3: Three different constructors Maverick Viñales won a MotoGP race (2016 British GP with Suzuki, 2017-2021 with Yamaha and 2024 Americas GP with Aprilia). It will be four different manufacturers if Viñales won a MotoGP race onboard with Tech3 KTM in 2025.
- 5: Five Spaniards have won the premier class world titles: Alex Criville (1999), Jorge Lorenzo (2010, 2012 and 2015), Marc Marquez (2013-2014, 2016-2019), Joan Mir (2020) and Jorge Martin (2024)
- 5: There will be five MotoGP world champions who competed as full-time riders in 2025: Marc Marquez (six-time MotoGP world champion), Francesco Bagnaia (two-time MotoGP world champion), Joan Mir, Fabio Quartararo and Jorge Martin (one-time MotoGP world champions respectively)
- 6: Top-two title contenders Francesco Bagnaia and Jorge Martin have won six sprint races each respectively in 2024
- 10: Ten points seperated top-two contenders Jorge Martin and Francesco Bagnaia in the 2024 final riders standings
- 11: Francesco Bagnaia took eleven Grand Prix wins in 2024 but failed to win the world title, losing ten points to Jorge Martin who collected three wins. It is the most GP wins in a single season by a rider without winning the premier class world title on that season in the MotoGP's 75-year history, the record previously being held by Jorge Lorenzo in 2013 with eight wins (losing to Marc Marquez with six wins), Dani Pedrosa in 2012 with seven wins (losing to Lorenzo with six wins), Valentino Rossi in 2006 with five wins (losing to Nicky Hayden with two wins), and Mick Doohan in 1992 with five wins (losing to Wayne Rainey with three wins)
- 14: Jorge Martin became the fourteenth rider in the 75-year MotoGP history to win the premier class world title during the final race on the final round of a single season (with sprint races being introduced in 2023); the others being Umberto Massetti (1950 and 1952), Libero Liberati (1957), Giacomo Agostini (1966, 1967 and 1975), Kenny Roberts Sr. (1978-1980), Marco Lucchinelli (1981), Freddie Spencer (1983), Eddie Lawson (1989), Wayne Rainey (1992), Kevin Schwantz (1993), Nicky Hayden (2006), Marc Marquez (2013 and 2017), Jorge Lorenzo (2015), and Francesco Bagnaia (2022 and 2023)
- 19: Out of twenty Grand Prix races in 2024, Ducati and its signature world title-winning Desmosedici GP24 bike have won nineteen races by the names of Francesco Bagnaia (11 races), Marc Marquez and Jorge Martin (3 races each), and Enea Bastianini (2 races); the record previously being held by Honda and its title-winning RC211V bike winning fifteen out of sixteen races in 2003 by the names of Valentino Rossi (9 races), Sete Gibernau (4 races) and Max Biaggi (2 races)
- 19 years old: Rookie sensation Pedro Acosta is only third youngest rider in premier class history to achieve first podium at the 2024 Portuguese GP, the others being Randy Mamola and Eduardo Salatino (both also achieved maiden podium at age of 19)
- 23: Years since last non-factory rider won the riders' world championship; Valentino Rossi won the title with Honda's satelite team Nastro Azzuro Racing in 2001, while Jorge Martin clinched the title with Ducati's independent team Prima Pramac Racing in 2024
- 26: age of Jorge Martin won his first premier class world title (26 years, 293 days old)
- 27: Years since the two brothers in the same podium; Nobuatsu and Takuma Aoki finished 2nd and 3rd in the 1997 Imola GP behind Mick Doohan; it was succeeded by the Marquez brothers (Marc and Alex Marquez) on the similar podium positions as the Aoki brothers (2nd and 3rd) in the 2024 German GP behind Francesco Bagnaia
- 203: Points margin between 2024 teams champions Ducati Lenovo Team (884 pts) and 2024 independent teams champions Prima Pramac Racing (681 pts)
- 337: Points scored by 2024 world champion Jorge Martin (with the exception of sprints)
- 366 km/h: Top speed record set by KTM Factory Racing team rider Brad Binder onboard with his KTM RC16 at the 2024 Italian GP in Mugello, also equaled by Pol Espargaro on the same bike as Binder's at the same Grand Prix
- 370: Points scored by Francesco Bagnaia (with the exception of sprints); Bagnaia should have won his third consecutive world title if sprint races being dismissed in 2023 and 2024
- 395: Points margin between 2024 constructors champions Ducati (722 pts) and runners-up KTM (327 pts)
- 498: Points scored by 2024 runner-up Francesco Bagnaia, the most by any riders' championship runner-up in 75-year MotoGP history
- 508: Points scored by 2024 world champion Jorge Martin, the first rider in 75-year MotoGP history to reach the 500-point benchmark
- 1,043: Days between Marc Marquez's last win with Repsol Honda Team onboard with Honda RC213V (2021 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix) and his first win onboard with Ducati Desmosedici (2024 Aragon Grand Prix)
- 1,050: Days between Marc Marquez's last back-to-back GP race wins (2021 Americas and Emilia Romagna GP) and most recent back-to-back GP race wins (2024 Aragon and San Marino GP)
- over 3 million: Total Grand Prix spectators in twenty MotoGP races in 2024; the sold-out Solidarity GP race at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya which replaced the canceled Valencian GP due to flooding at Valencian region (causing minor damage at Circuit Comunitat Valenciana Ricardo Tormo), was attended by more than 132,400 spectators; the most attended MotoGP race of all-time, breaking the record previously held at 2015 Valencian GP which attended by 124,700 spectators
So, will we see more records broken and history made in 2025? Tune in to MotoGP 2025 on TNT Sports in USA and UK, and on your country's official MotoGP broadcasters!! MotoGP 2025 kicks off from Thailand GP in Buriram on March 2!
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SEE ALSO
• MotoGP rider records (per 2024 Solidarity Grand Prix)
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