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Venus & Serena, Bobby & Jack, Vitali & Wladimir - now Marc & Alex have joined the list of top-level sporting siblings

- MAT OXLEY

If you think you hear the name Márquez too often these days, there are reasons for this. Not one reason. Two. During October's Malaysian Grand Prix, Álex Márquez secured second place in the 2025 MotoGP world championship standings behind his older brother Marc. This is the first sibling 1-2 in eight decades of the championship.

Álex is three years younger than Marc - who has mostly dominated MotoGP for the last decade or so. Like his big brother, Álex worked his way into the premier class via winning the junior and intermediate championships. He won the 2014 Moto3 title and five years later the Moto2 crown, before graduating to MotoGP the following year.

When Álex first arrived in the grand prix paddock, Marc would tell any journalist that would listen that his little brother was the faster of the two. And he's not stopped bigging him up since. The pair have an incredibly close relationship, apparently always wanting the best for each other, their racing egos quickly disengaged when dealing with each other.

"Marc is my brother and he's my best friend," says Álex. "When we were kids we were always together, at tracks all weekend, every weekend."