If you've been following MotoGP for the past decade, you knew Marc Marquez was destined to break records—it was just a matter of time. Well, until he got into several terrible accidents, any of which could've ended his career, and his Honda RC213V became borderline unridable, at least if Marquez wanted to try to compete near the front. It looked, for a moment, that the chosen record breaker of this generation was going to fall short. But that's beginning to change.
This past weekend, at the Dutch GP, Marc became the first rider to win six consecutive races since the Saturday Sprint races were introduced for the 2023 season. So, three sprint races and three main races in a row. If Marc didn't crash out at COTA during the third round of the championship, he'd have achieved this record straight off the bat.
But the record itself isn't the most interesting thing, in my opinion—it's how seemingly unaware and nonchalant he was about the whole thing. His teammate, Francesco Bagnaia, who came third in the Dutch GP, was the one to alert Marc on the podium to his breaking of the record, which probably stung a bit.
