Pedro Acosta believes Marc Marquez’s 2025 MotoGP title triumph is the result of the ‘greatest comeback in the history of the sport.”
With second-place finishes in both the Sprint and Grand Prix at Motegi, Marquez sealed a record seventh title in the MotoGP era and his ninth world championship overall.
His title marks a first with Ducati in his debut season with the factory team, highlighted by 11 Grand Prix victories and 14 Sprint race wins with five races to go.
Marquez has battled a career-threatening arm injury in 2020, recurring episodes of diplopia, and numerous other injuries, leading KTM rider Acosta to conclude that his achievement is the greatest resurgence in the sport’s 76-year history.
““Like I said many times, I think it’s the greatest comeback in the history of the sport,” Acosta shared about Marquez’s title win.
“At the end, even I was emotional seeing the video that the guys made for him, so I cannot imagine for him.
“Congratulations to him and also the people around him. Because sometimes the people around suffer even more than the ones who have the injury.
“Congrats for them, for Ducati, for all the group around Marc because they deserve it.”
On Thursday, ahead of the Catalunya round earlier in September, Acosta compared Marquez’s comeback to that of six-time NBA champion Michael Jordan.
Jordan quit basketball after completing a three-peat, following his father’s shooting and a desire to try baseball, before returning to the Chicago Bulls to win three more consecutive titles.
“Because we can compare this with Michael Jordan when he went to play baseball and then came back to basketball,” Acosta shared.
“I think he will be the first MotoGP rider to be able to sit in this table of [Spanish legends] [20-time Grand Slam winner Rafael] Nadal, [two-time Formula 1 champion Fernando] Alonso and [Six-time NBA All-Star Pau] Gasol.
“For this, I think it will be one of the greatest comebacks of the sport.”
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