It’s the leaderboard no MotoGP rider wants to be at the top of.
And for Joan Mir, the 2020 world champion, it’s the harsh reality of how things have unravelled for him in the years since, and especially since he joined Honda after Suzuki withdrew from the sport in 2022.
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MotoGP’s crash stats for the first 12 rounds of the 2025 season have Mir – and fellow Honda rider Johann Zarco – tied for first place with 15 falls each across sessions at Grands Prix weekends.
And for Mir, it’s not entirely his fault.
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The 27-year-old has 11 non-finishes from 23 starts – the Spaniard missed the Qatar sprint race altogether with a nasty bout of gastro – this season, four more than the next-worst rider for seeing the chequered flag, KTM’s Brad Binder (seven DNFs).
It’s partly, but not completely, why he sits atop this list.
MotoGP crashes, 2025 (after 12 of 22 rounds)
15: Joan Mir (Honda), Johann Zarco (Honda)
13: Alex Marquez (Ducati), Brad Binder (KTM)
12: Marco Bezzecchi (Aprilia), Jack Miller (Yamaha), Franco Morbidelli (Ducati)
11: Ai Ogura (Aprilia)
9: Pedro Acosta (KTM), Fermin Aldeguer (Ducati)
8: Marc Marquez (Ducati)
7: Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha)
6: Raul Fernandez (Aprilia), Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati), Enea Bastianini (KTM)
5: Somkiat Chantra (Honda)
4: Maverick Vinales (KTM)
3: Alex Rins (Yamaha), Fabio Di Giannantonio (Ducati), Miguel Oliveira (Yamaha)
1: Jorge Martin (Aprilia)
0: Luca Marini (Honda)
(Note: Crashes are from Grand Prix events only, and do not include testing. Crashes listed for regular MotoGP riders, not wildcards or fill-in riders)
Zarco’s 15 crashes match his total for the entire 20-round 2024 season, while Mir has only two fewer crashes in half a season than he managed in last year’s complete campaign.
What the numbers don’t show, though, is why Mir’s reputation as MotoGP’s resident crash magnet has only been enhanced this season.
Unbelievably, on five occasions this year – including the past three Grands Prix – he’s been taken out as a result of someone else’s mistake.
‘HE WAS SAYING THINGS WITH NO SENSE’
At the most recent race in the Czech Republic, Mir’s season-long frustration finally boiled over. And it was little wonder.
After the Spaniard qualified fifth for his best starting spot since the 2023 Indian Grand Prix, 39 races previously, he was battling for sixth two laps into the 21-lap race when he was skittled by Alex Marquez, the Gresini Ducati rider going for a gap that wasn’t there at turn 12 of the Brno layout, not a corner where passes are typically contemplated, let alone pulled off.
Marquez was instantly apologetic and later copped a long-lap penalty for the next round in Austria for his overly-ambitious move, but Mir was enraged, engaging in a one-way conversation that only intensified as Marquez tried to walk away.
It was a move that did little the quell the narrative that Marquez races other rivals differently to the way he races his older brother, world championship leader Marc Marquez, and one where Mir’s reaction was justifiably over the top.
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A week earlier, Mir had been taken out in Germany when Japanese rookie Ai Ogura (Aprilia) crashed at the Sachsenring’s first corner and cannoned into Mir’s Honda as he was on course for a top-10 finish.
The round before Germany in the Netherlands, Spanish rookie Fermin Aldeguer had a vicious high-side on lap six at Assen right in front of Fabio Quartararo, the Yamaha rider taking avoiding action by running onto the trackside grass as an unsighted Mir piled into Aldeguer’s crashed Ducati as it blocked the centre of the track.
In round eight in Aragon, Mir crashed out of the sprint race after being punted into the turn 12 gravel trap by Australia’s Jack Miller on lap two, while his unluckiest break came in France in round six.
KTM’s Enea Bastianini crashed on the second turn of the first lap and took out Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia; Mir crashed while avoiding Bagnaia’s sliding bike and hit Zarco, who somehow stayed upright and rolled through the gravel trap before eventually winning a rain-hit race, Mir suffering a broken right hand to add injury to his insult.
It’s a run of ill-fortune that explains why he reacted so angrily to the Marquez incident at Brno, and one Marquez tried to apologise for in his post-race media debrief.
“I was not trying to overtake him, just trying to see if that was an overtaking place,” Marquez explained.
“At that point, more in the inside, I lost the front and I touched Mir and he crashed also. He was hot … it’s not a conversation that is lucid, [he was] just saying things with no sense. He was really agitated. In the end I said sorry, honestly, because it’s the only thing that I can say.”
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Compared to HRC factory teammate Luca Marini – yet to crash at all at a MotoGP weekend in 2025 – Mir’s reputation is one of a rider who rages against the shortcomings of his machinery than the more considered and cerebral Italian, who crashed fewer times (four) than any other rider last year, too.
Once he’d calmed down, Mir explained at Brno that Honda’s acknowledged lack of straight-line speed changes the way rivals on other bikes approach wheel-to-wheel battles and overtaking opportunities with him and his stablemates.
“Alex had tried to overtake me a couple of times earlier in the lap and I had already felt some contacts in the rear,” Mir said.
“Then in the chicane he lost the front, he touched me, and I finished on the ground. There’s nothing more to say about it.
“I don’t believe in bad luck, good luck. I think that we are in a situation that we are fighting against other bikes that go every straight 5-10km/h faster than us … [we] arrive to the braking area every time with inferior [speed] than the others.
“We brake in a good way because it’s the area where I can recover the lack of acceleration and power that we have. I brake always strong and if they are optimistic, they release the brakes and something happens.
“This is something that is happening in the last races, happened something similar today, and will happen in the future if we don’t make a step, if we stay with the same bike.”
WHAT ELSE DO THE 2025 CRASH STATS TELL US?
Comparing the number of crashes per rider in the first 12 rounds of 2025 to all of 2024 reveals some key trends for some of MotoGP’s biggest names.
MotoGP crashes, 2024 (full season, 20 rounds)
28: Pedro Acosta (KTM)
24: Marc Marquez (Ducati)
21: Alex Marquez (Ducati)
20: Jack Miller (KTM)
19: Brad Binder (KTM), Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia), Augusto Fernandez (KTM)
18: Marco Bezzecchi (Ducati)
17: Joan Mir (Honda)
15: Jorge Martin (Ducati), Franco Morbidelli (Ducati), Johann Zarco (Honda)
13: Enea Bastianini (Ducati), Fabio Di Giannantonio (Ducati)
10: Alex Rins (Yamaha), Maverick Vinales (Aprilia)
9: Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati), Fabio Quartararo (Yamaha)
8: Raul Fernandez (Aprilia)
7: Takaaki Nakagami (Honda)
6: Miguel Oliveira (Aprilia)
4: Luca Marini (Honda)
Marc Marquez – who has crashed eight times this season – had 16 crashes to the same stage of 2024, when only KTM rookie Pedro Acosta fell off more over the 20 rounds.
Marquez – who leads the world championship by a whopping 120 points at the mid-season break after Alex Marquez’s non-score in Brno coincided with him winning his fifth Grand Prix in succession, a Ducati record – has ridden this year’s GP25 machine with more margin in hand than he did last season, when he was on a Ducati GP23 for Gresini Racing that had a tendency to push the front tyre to the point of crashing in corners that require hard braking, a Marquez strong suit.
Miller has crashed 12 times this season in 12 rounds after crashing 20 times in 20 rounds last year, his crash rate staying constant despite switching to Yamaha this season after riding for KTM in 2023-24.
The Australian’s crash tally is one fewer than the combined 13 crashes for the rest of Yamaha’s rider stable, factory teammates Fabio Quartararo and Alex Rins, and Miller’s Pramac Yamaha teammate Miguel Oliveira.
Of course, it’s not always about the number of crashes that are inevitable for MotoGP riders; it’s when you have them.
Last year, Bagnaia crashed just nine times, but fell four times in sprint races, the points squandered almost entirely the reason for his eventual 10-point championship loss to Jorge Martin.
As for Martin, his sole crash in 2025 came with big consequences; his fall in Qatar in round four saw him hit by the trailing Ducati of Fabio Di Giannantonio, leaving the Aprilia rider with 11 fractured ribs and a collapsed lung that saw him sidelined for three months before returning to the fray in the Czech Republic last time out.