We’re brothers with 10 MotoGP world champion titles, countless crashes and

OVER the years, tennis fans have witnessed some of the biggest sibling rivalries of all time, including Serena and Venus Williams as well as Andy and Jamie Murray.

And the MotoGP world has one of the most exciting brotherly battles too.

8-time world champion Marc Marquez, 30, has been called the “Senna of the MotoGP world” and became the youngest ever rider to win the MotoGP title in 2013, at the age of 20.

He went on to win the world championship every year following, until 2020, when he came crashing into the air at around 100mph, suffering a fractured humerus, leading to surgery.

Marc returned the following year, only gaining 7th place, followed by 13th in 2022.

And, as he prepares for the 12th competition in San Morino this Sunday, he’s placing at 19th.

Meanwhile, his younger brother, Alex Marquez, 27, won the Moto2 Motorcycling World Championship in 2019 with Team Estrella Galicia, and has been coming up behind him, hot on his (w)heels.

‘Jealous’ of older brother

For the first time in the boys’ careers, throughout this year’s world championship, Alex has been much higher up the league table than Marc, currently in 9th place in the GP.

And, as we sit down with him at Estrella Galicia’s bar at Silverstone, Alex admits his success is down to the competition he’s had with his brother.

“I look up to him quite a lot, I’m quite jealous of him,” he tells us. “I’ve achieved much more than what I imagined when I was young, and I think it’s because I’ve been fighting him. 

“When I was younger, I was comparing myself to him quite a lot.

“Later, I started to actually follow him.”

Marc and Alex were both in Honda until this year, as Alex has moved to Ducati – and he feels much more relaxed racing against him now.

He says: “Competing against each other is really nice, but it’s something that, if you can avoid it, it’s better, because when you see your brother crashing or something like that, it’s hard to not take it with you. 

“But I love being in a different team to him. I feel more relaxed. 

“In the same team, we’re on the same bike, we’re fighting, it’s something that in the first moment is nice, but later on, it gets hard.”

And Marc has loved having his brother around him as they’ve travelled the world together every year for each Grand Prix.

“Having my brother there is one of the coolest things I have in my career and in my life because it’s become a lifestyle,” he says. 

“To spend your profession with your brother, race the same racetracks, it’s something very special and very nice. And yeah, we’re travelling around the world together. 

“We are competing against each other, but also I try to help him, and he tries to help me. So this is very nice.”

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