Alex Marquez secured a second-place finish in the 2025 MotoGP World Championship and has compared it to previous title success.

After spending six years in the MotoGP World Championship, Alex Marquez became a true title contender in the premier class across the 2025 season.

The younger Marquez brother made his MotoGP debut in 2020 with the Repsol Honda squad, before spending the 2021 and 2022 seasons with LCR Honda, which were his worst years in MotoGP.

It was the 2023 season that saw a breakthrough for Marquez as he moved to the Gresini Racing MotoGP squad, where he has remained for the 2024 and 2025 seasons.

The 2025 season marked Marquez's best season in the premier class, as across 20 Grands Prix he collected three Grand Prix victories and eight further podiums. As well as a Sprint Race win and 11 further Sprint Race podiums.

After securing second place in the 2025 MotoGP World Championship at the Malaysian Grand Prix, Marquez explained that his MotoGP runner-up finish was a similar feeling to his Moto2 and Moto3 title successes.

"It's similar. It’s similar because it's a second place, but it's not a normal second place for me," Marquez told Motorsport.com.

"My way in MotoGP was not easy. I started in 2020 in a really good way with two podiums, being a rookie in Repsol Honda, but later on, I moved to LCR, and I suffered there for two years. I was nearly at home in 2023.

"Just a piece of luck or something like that, I had the opportunity at Gresini [after LCR]. For that reason, it's really special.

"I'm second, I'm the first of the losers. But the winner is my brother, so it's a different way, a different feeling.

"It was a perfect thing. It's special from the way that we are coming from the place that we are coming from. For that reason, it's a really good second place."