The International Losail circuit already has everything ready to house the fourth date of the 2025 season of the MotoGP. After a week of break, the Grand Prix of Qatar will be in charge of receiving the 22 pilots of the current grill in the framework of the fourth day of the season. Pecco Bagnaia will want to extend the path of the victory he found in Austin, while Marc Márquez wants to claim after his fall in the Americas circuit.
In this way, the country of the Middle East has become a constant within the calendar of the Motorcycling World Cup since its incorporation in 2004. With only an absence in 2020, due to the pandemic for the COVID-19, there are 20 editions that have been played by the Grand Prix, with nine pilots winning on more than one occasion.
Italian domain in the Asian country
Since 2016, the hymn of Italy is the one that has been heard most at the top of the podium of the different categories. The victory of Niccolò Antonelli in 2016 in Moto3, was the one that opened the door to eight of his compatriots to take their place on the podium in the coming years. Similarly, Andrea Migo in 2022 was the other Italian to win in the lower displacement category.
Marc Márquez and Pecco Bagnaia, in Austin.duati
Franco Morbidelli (2017), Franceso Bagnaia (2018), Lorenzo Baldassarri (2019) and Celestino Vietti (2022), are the transalpine pilots who have managed to write their name on the list of winners on Moto2.
While in the Queen category, Andrea Dovizioso (2018, 2019), Enea Bastianini (2022), Fabio Di Giannantonio (2023) and Francesco Bagnaia (2024), dominated Losail’s route to sit at the top of the podium. The only non -Italian pilot to win on MotoGP during the ‘Azzurro’ domain is Maverick Viñales, who succeeded in 2017 and 2021 with his Yamaha.
Without the need for Valentino Rossi
Although Valentino Rossi is one of the top winners of the Qatar Grand Prix, ‘Il Dottore’ for the last occasion in 2015. The nine -time world champion also crossed the finish line before anyone else in 2010, 2006 and 2005, matching Casey Stoner as the top winners of the route in the history of the MotoGP.