It's purportedly a new day in MotoGP, and the changes are already underway. While a lot of attention (including ours) was focused on sketchy new math robbing Marc Márquez of championship wins that would previously have counted toward his total just days before he clinched the 2025 championship, he was hardly the only rider in MotoGP history to lose out.
All the heavy hitters who've won high numbers of championships have done so across multiple classes. That's how MotoGP has worked for literally its entire existence. Take the living legend Giacomo Agostini, for example. He won a total of 15 world championships, but they weren't all in the same class. Indeed, eight were in the 500cc class (the premier class of the time period), while seven were in the 350cc class. Or what about Ángel Nieto, who won 13 championships in total? Seven of those were in the 125cc class, while six were in the 50cc class.
Are we just going to pretend that those accomplishments don't count anymore? Says who?
