Eleven champions against Márquez

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Marc Márquez, world champion and top favorite for the title in 2018, returns to a stage known this season, that of 11 world champions fighting him in MotoGP, just as it happened in 2015, which was curiously the only one of his five years in the highest category in which he did not win the title. Between all they add 32 twisted, a historical record for the category that can configure this grill as the best in history.

Because in addition, nine of the 21 drivers in the race have won races already in the queen class (215 among all), which is also a record in the category. Lorenzo (44), Márquez (35), Pedrosa (31) and Viñales (4) are the Spaniards from a list commanded by the 89 of Valentino Rossi. And 21 have won races in this or that displacement.

A competed line-up in which there are four casualties compared to 2017. Jonas Folger (low), Loris Baz (SBK), Sam Lowes (Moto2) and Héctor Barberá (Moto2) make way for five debutants, two of whom have been champions of world like Franco Morbidelli and Tom Luthi.

Plenary of Spanish officers

Again there will be full Spanish in the six official teams of the category: Pedrosa, who will be the first Spaniard to reach 200 grand prizes in the queen class, and Márquez (Honda), Lorenzo (Ducati), Viñales (Yamaha), Pol Espargaró (KTM), Aleix Espargaró (Aprilia) and Rins (Suzuki), who at 22 years old is the youngest on the grid against Rossi's 39 years.

In Moto2 there is no champion in title (Morbidelli has jumped of category), but four Moto3 champions looking for the throne, two of them Spanish: Joan Mir, Álex Márquez, Danny Kent and Brad Binder. In Moto3 there is no champion either and only seven drivers of the 28 on the grid have won a race.