Marquez has more wins in MotoGP than all the 23 other riders combined (52)

The MotoGP grid comprises 24 riders with five rookies (Remy Gardner, Raul Fernandez, Marco Bezzecchi, Fabio Di
Giannantonio and Darryn Binder).

There are 14 GP World Champions; a new record for the full-time MotoGP entry list for the opening race. They have 24
World Championships between them, which is six less than last year. Record: 32 (2018).

12 riders on the full-time MotoGP entry list have won premier class races (one more than 2021) and have 111 wins
between them (169 last year). Fun fact: with 59 MotoGP wins, Marc Marquez has more wins in the class than all the
23 other riders combined (52).

23 riders have victories in at least one of the three classes of Grand Prix racing (four more than 2021), with a total of
330 Grand Prix victories (379 in 2021). The only rider who has no win so far is Aleix Espargaro.

One rookie is a GP winner and World Champion: Remy Gardner (six Moto2 wins, 2021 Moto2 World Champion).
However, Raul Fernandez, who was 2018 Moto3 Junior World Champion, has 10 GP wins (eight in Moto2 and two in
Moto3).

Marco Bezzecchi has six GP wins (three in both Moto2 and Moto3), Fabio Di Giannantonio has three GP wins (one in
Moto2 and two in Moto3) and Darryn Binder has one GP win in Moto3. Darryn Binder is the second rider to join
MotoGP directly from Moto3, along with Jack Miller in 2015.

The oldest rider is Andrea Dovizioso, 35 years 348 days old on race day at the Qatar GP. The youngest is Raul
Fernandez, 21 years and 134 days old. The average age of the grid is 26 years and seven months, which is the second-
lowest average age on the entry list of the opening race of the season since the introduction of MotoGP in 2002, after
Qatar 2008 (26 years and four months)