Riders with the Most Motorcycle Grand Prix World Championships
Key Findings
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Riders with the Most Motorcycle Grand Prix World ChampionshipsAcross all classes, Giacomo Agostini's 15 world titles are the most in the history of Grand Prix motorcycle racing, achieved by dominating the 350cc and 500cc classes simultaneously in the 1960s and 70s. Spain's Ángel Nieto follows with 13, all won in the smaller 50cc and 125cc categories. A remarkable four-way tie on nine titles then features riders from very different eras: 1960s legend Mike Hailwood, 1950s specialist Carlo Ubbiali, and modern greats Valentino Rossi and Marc Márquez. The presence of Rossi and Márquez alongside champions from seventy years earlier shows how the all-time list rewards versatility and longevity. Below them, John Surtees and Phil Read (both seven) are notable as riders who won titles on two wheels and, in Surtees's case, later in Formula One cars.
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- MotoGP / Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 10 entities · 10 observations
- Measure
- World Championships (All Classes)
- Last updated
- 11 July 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
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