Marco Bezzecchi

Marco Bezzecchi
Bezzecchi at the 2023 Japanese Grand Prix
Nationality	Italian
Born	(1998-11-12) 12 November 1998 (age 26) Rimini, Italy
Current team	Aprilia Racing
Bike number	72
Motorcycle racing career statistics MotoGP World Championship Active years 2022– Manufacturers Ducati (2022–2024) Aprilia (2025–) Championships 0 2024 championship position 12th (153 pts) Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points 60 3 9 4 4 593 Moto2 World Championship Active years 2019–2021 Manufacturers KTM, Kalex Championships 0 2021 championship position 3rd (214 pts) Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points 52 3 14 2 1 415 Moto3 World Championship Active years 2015–2018 Manufacturers Mahindra, KTM Championships 0 2018 championship position 3rd (214 pts) Starts Wins Podiums Poles F. laps Points 40 3 10 2 0 234

Marco Bezzecchi (born 12 November 1998) is an Italian Grand Prix motorcycle racer, competing for Aprilia Racing in the 2025 MotoGP World Championship.^[1]

Career

Junior career

Bezzecchi won the Italian Moto3 championship in 2015, and also made his debut in the 2015 FIM CEV Moto3 Junior World Championship that season. He ended the year 16th in the standings, with 29 points, finishing in the top-10 on three occasions. The 2016 FIM CEV Moto3 Junior World Championship was very similar for him, finishing in the top-10 three times, this time scoring 31 points, enough for 18th in the standings.

Moto3 World Championship

Bezzecchi made his debut in the 2015 Moto3 World Championship, with two wild-card appearances, finishing 26th in Qatar, and retiring in his home Grand Prix of Italy.

Mahindra Racing (2016)

In the 2016 season, he again competed in two races, retiring in Austria and finishing 24th in Great Britain.

CIP (2017)

Bezzecchi competed full time in the 2017 Moto3 World Championship, riding for Mahindra CIP, teammate of Manuel Pagliani. Bezzecchi had a slow rookie season, up until the race in Japan; he finished in 14th once, and 15th twice for a total of four points, but in the Motegi race he managed a 3rd place, his maiden podium in Moto3.^[2] He ended the season with 20 points, 23rd in the standings, second among rookies.

Redox PrüstelGP (2018)

Bezzecchi in 2018

For the 2018 season, Bezzecchi would switch teams and ride for Prüstel GP. He won three races (Argentina, Austria, and Japan), finished 2nd five times, once in 3rd, and had two pole positions, ending the season with nine podiums, 214 points, and 3rd in the overall championship standings.

Moto2 World Championship

Red Bull KTM Tech3 (2019)

Partnering Philipp Öttl at Red Bull KTM Tech3 for the 2019 Moto2 World Championship, Bezzecchi had a bad rookie year, finishing in the points only four times, ending his season with 17 points, and 23rd in the final standings.

Sky Racing Team VR46 (2020–2021)

For the 2020 Moto2 World Championship, Bezzecchi joined the newly formed Sky Racing Team VR46, alongside Luca Marini. The duo would have a very good season, winning the teams' championship by 113 points with five race wins between them (Marini three, Bezzecchi two). Bezzecchi won the races in Austria and Valencia, finished 2nd in Misano and Rimini, and finished 3rd in a further three races, ending his season with seven podiums, 184 points, and 4th in the championship standings.

Following Luca Marini moving up to MotoGP, Bezzecchi's teammate for the 2021 season was Celestino Vietti. Bezzecchi had a very well balanced season, rarely finishing outside the top five, winning a race in Austria, finishing 2nd in Jerez and Silverstone, and 3rd in Le Mans, Mugello, Germany, and Austin. He finished the year 3rd in the rider's championship, with 214 points.

MotoGP World Championship

Mooney VR46 Racing Team (2022–2024)

For the 2022 season, Bezzecchi was confirmed to be moving up to the premier class, partnering his 2020 teammate at Mooney VR46 Racing Team, Luca Marini.^[3] He picked up his first podium finish in MotoGP at the Dutch TT.^[4] Later in the season, he got his first MotoGP pole position at the Thailand Grand Prix.^[5]

Bezzecchi is due to stay with the same team for the 2023 season.

In 2023, Bezzecchi took his first ever MotoGP win at the Argentine Republic Grand Prix in rainy conditions, and thus took the championship lead for the first time in the premier class. He won the 1000th MotoGP Grand Prix at the French Grand Prix, his second win of the season.

Aprilia Racing (2025–)

On 24 June it was announced that Bezzechi will join Aprilia Racing for 2025/2026 alongside Jorge Martin, who Bezzechi fought with for the 2018 Moto3 Championship.^[6]

Career statistics

CIV Moto3 Championship

Races by year

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Pos	Pts
2015	Mahindra	MIS1 1	MIS2 1	VAL1 Ret	VAL2 1	MUG1 1	MUG2 Ret	IMO1 1	IMO2 Ret	MUG2 1	MUG2 1	1st	175

FIM CEV Moto3 Junior World Championship

Races by year

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pos	Pts
2015	Mahindra	ALG	LMS	CAT1	CAT2	ARA1 8	ARA2 7	ALB Ret	NAV 8	JER1 22	JER2 17	VAL1 12	VAL2 Ret	16th	29
2016	Mahindra	VAL1 Ret	VAL2 11	LMS 18	ARA 8	CAT1 Ret	CAT2 15	ALB Ret	ALG 9	JER1 Ret	JER2 6	VAL1	VAL2	18th	31

Grand Prix motorcycle racing

By season

Season	Class	Motorcycle	Team	Race	Win	Podium	Pole	FLap	Pts	Plcd
2015	Moto3	Mahindra	San Carlo Team Italia	2	0	0	0	0	0	NC
			Minimoto Portomaggiore
2016	Moto3	Mahindra	Mahindra Racing	2	0	0	0	0	0	47th
2017	Moto3	Mahindra	CIP	18	0	1	0	0	20	23rd
2018	Moto3	KTM	Redox PrüstelGP	18	3	9	2	0	214	3rd
2019	Moto2	KTM	Red Bull KTM Tech3	19	0	0	0	0	17	23rd
2020	Moto2	Kalex	Sky Racing Team VR46	15	2	7	1	1	184	4th
2021	Moto2	Kalex	Sky Racing Team VR46	18	1	7	1	0	214	3rd
2022	MotoGP	Ducati	Mooney VR46 Racing Team	20	0	1	1	0	111	14th
2023	MotoGP	Ducati	Mooney VR46 Racing Team	20	3	7	3	4	329	3rd
2024	MotoGP	Ducati	Pertamina Enduro VR46 Racing Team	20	0	1	0	0	153	12th
Total				152	9	33	8	5	1242

By class

Class	Seasons	1st GP	1st Pod	1st Win	Race	Win	Podiums	Pole	FLap	Pts	WChmp
Moto3	2015–2018	2015 Qatar	2017 Japan	2018 Argentina	40	3	10	2	0	234	0
Moto2	2019–2021	2019 Qatar	2020 Andalusia	2020 Styria	52	3	14	2	1	415	0
MotoGP	2022–present	2022 Qatar	2022 Netherlands	2023 Argentina	60	3	9	4	4	593	0
Total	2015–present				152	9	33	8	5	1242	0

Races by year

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Class	Bike	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	Pos	Pts
2015	Moto3	Mahindra	QAT 26	AME	ARG	SPA	FRA	ITA Ret	CAT	NED	GER	INP	CZE	GBR	RSM	ARA	JPN	AUS	MAL	VAL			NC	0
2016	Moto3	Mahindra	QAT	ARG	AME	SPA	FRA	ITA	CAT	NED	GER	AUT Ret	CZE	GBR 24	RSM	ARA	JPN	AUS	MAL	VAL			47th	0
2017	Moto3	Mahindra	QAT 25	ARG 19	AME 17	SPA Ret	FRA 15	ITA 17	CAT 14	NED 16	GER 15	CZE 22	AUT Ret	GBR 19	RSM Ret	ARA 19	JPN 3	AUS Ret	MAL 19	VAL 28			23rd	20
2018	Moto3	KTM	QAT 14	ARG 1	AME 3	SPA 2	FRA Ret	ITA 2	CAT 2	NED Ret	GER 2	CZE 6	AUT 1	GBR C	RSM Ret	ARA 2	THA NC	JPN 1	AUS Ret	MAL 5	VAL 20		3rd	214
2019	Moto2	KTM	QAT 26	ARG 16	AME Ret	SPA 22	FRA 18	ITA 23	CAT 23	NED 10	GER 19	CZE 12	AUT 23	GBR 19	RSM Ret	ARA 15	THA 10	JPN Ret	AUS Ret	MAL Ret	VAL 19		23rd	17
2020	Moto2	Kalex	QAT 12	SPA Ret	ANC 3	CZE 6	AUT 6	STY 1	RSM 2	EMI 2	CAT 7	FRA 3	ARA Ret	TER Ret	EUR 1	VAL 3	POR 4						4th	184
2021	Moto2	Kalex	QAT 4	DOH 4	POR 6	SPA 2	FRA 3	ITA 3	CAT 4	GER 3	NED 5	STY 1	AUT 10	GBR 2	ARA Ret	RSM 5	AME 3	EMI Ret	ALR 8	VAL 20			3rd	214
2022	MotoGP	Ducati	QAT Ret	INA 20	ARG 9	AME Ret	POR 15	SPA 9	FRA 12	ITA 5	CAT Ret	GER 11	NED 2	GBR 10	AUT 9	RSM 17	ARA 10	JPN 10	THA 16	AUS 4	MAL 4	VAL 11	14th	111
2023	MotoGP	Ducati	POR 3	ARG 1^2	AME 6^6	SPA Ret^9	FRA 1^7	ITA 8^2	GER 4^7	NED 2^1	GBR Ret^2	AUT 3	CAT 12^8	RSM 2^2	IND 1^5	JPN 4^6	INA 5^3	AUS 6	THA 4^6	MAL 6^7	QAT 13	VAL Ret^7	3rd	329
2024	MotoGP	Ducati	QAT 14	POR 6	AME 8	SPA 3	FRA Ret	CAT 11^9	ITA 13	NED Ret	GER 8	GBR 8	AUT 6^8	ARA 7	RSM 5	EMI 4^8	INA 5^4	JPN 7	AUS 19	THA Ret^7	MAL 9	SLD 9^8	12th	153

* Season still in progress.

References

1. "Pablo Nieto confirms Bezzecchi as a 2022 MotoGP™ rider". www.motogp.com.
2. Chokhani, Darshan (16 October 2017). "Moto3: Marco Bezzecchi delivers Mahindra's season's first podium at Motegi". DriveTribe. Archived from the original on 20 January 2022. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
3. Chokhani, Darshan (12 November 2021). "Bezzecchi confirms step up in MotoGP with VR46 team in 2022".
4. "MotoGP recap: Dutch TT". MotoGP. 12 July 2022.
5. "Bezzecchi brilliance in Thai GP qualifying". MotoGP. 1 October 2022.
6. "SIMPLY THE BEZ. MARCO BEZZECCHI WITH APRILIA RACING FROM 2025". aprilia.com. 24 June 2024. Retrieved 24 June 2024.

External links

• Marco Bezzecchi at MotoGP.com
• Marco Bezzecchi at the CONI honored athlete website (in Italian)
• Marco Bezzecchi at AS.com (in Spanish)
• Profile on teamitaliafmi.com
• Official website