Overview
- Marc Márquez can secure a tenth career world championship this Losail weekend if he out-scores Jorge Martín by 30 points and Marco Bezzecchi by eight across Saturday’s sprint and Sunday’s full Grand Prix.
- Márquez says he will avoid reckless aggression and will work session by session while still planning to attack early in practice and qualifying to maximise his chances.
- Jorge Martín has returned with a fractured distal radius in his right arm and has said he will only know if he can complete the sprint and full race after riding in first practice, making his fitness a key variable in the title math.
- Event security concerns have shrunk the paddock, prompted some teams and media to stay away, led Yamaha to withdraw its riders, and produced official evacuation and shelter protocols that changed travel and timing for participants.
- Marco Bezzecchi’s large early-season lead evaporated after several zeros for Aprilia, a sequence that allowed Márquez’s late comeback on the Ducati and set up the concrete clinching scenario in Qatar.