Riders with the Most Premier-Class MotoGP World Championships
This chart ranks the riders who have won the most premier-class world titles in Grand Prix motorcycle racing (the 500cc and, since 2002, MotoGP class), through the 2025 season.
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Riders with the Most Premier-Class MotoGP World ChampionshipsGiacomo Agostini remains the benchmark of the premier class with eight titles, a record that has stood since the 1970s. But the modern era has produced two riders who have now drawn level with each other on seven: Valentino Rossi and Marc Márquez, the latter reaching seven with his 2025 crown after a long injury-hit gap. Mick Doohan's five titles, all won consecutively in the 1990s, place him fourth ahead of a cluster of four-time champions from earlier generations, Geoff Duke, John Surtees, Mike Hailwood and Eddie Lawson. The presence of names spanning the 1950s through the 2020s shows how the premier class has repeatedly crowned dominant multi-year champions, yet Agostini's eight-title mark has proven the hardest record in the sport to beat.
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