Like every year, the time has come for the ranking in which no rider would ever want to excel: that of crashes. This 2025 was the year of Johann Zarco, whose 28 contacts with the asphalt outclassed the competition in MotoGP. The Frenchman, winner of his home GP at Le Mans, cost Lucio Cecchinello not a little in spare parts, and 2025 was the year with the most crashes for him. Enough to put him ahead of Jack Miller, who still came in at 25, a considerable number in itself. There is also a Marquez on the podium in the premier class, but this time it isn't Marc, but his brother Alex, who arrived at 23, as did Franco Morbidelli, who thus shares the third step of the podium with the Spaniard.
Mir (22) and Acosta (21) also surpassed 20, while Bezzecchi stopped at 19, thus managing to get the better of rookie Aldeguer. The aforementioned Marc Marquez is not in the top positions this time, he stopped at 14 crashes, a result he had not achieved since 2019. As for Bagnaia, his number of falls totalled 11.
It was quite a different story for Luca Marini, who picked up just 3 tumbles. He also improved on last year's 4, revealing himself as the rider with the best sense of equilibrium.
We started by giving the best tumbler award to Zarco, but in truth in the other classes there are those who did worse (or better) than him. The terrible boys of Moto3, in fact, had no reverential fears in this regard. Indeed, Cormac Buchanan managed the feat of touching the ground 35 times (and without even the Sprints). David Almans' efforts to take the scepter away from him were to no avail; the 31 falls were not enough. Not bad either was our Guido Pini, 6th overall thanks to 22 crashes. In Moto2, however, it was Jorge Navarro who was the most susceptible to gravity, with 21 tumbles that earned him 7th place overall.
Overall, there were 965 total crashes this year: 349 in MotoGP, 275 in Moto2 and 341 in Moto3. This is not a record and especially this was the first season in which 22 Grand Prix were run.
Of course, the session where the most crashes occurred were the races, where riders risk the most. The second, pre-qualifying, become very important (especially in MotoGP). Riders in that case have to make their times without being perfectly set up with the bikes yet.
Turning to the circuits, the most treacherous turned out to be the Bugatti in Le Mans. Over the weekend in France (also thanks to unstable weather on Sunday) as many as 70 crashes were recorded. At Assen, on the other hand, the number was 64 and at Mandalika 59. Qatar and Aragon were the GPs where the fewest crashes occurred, only 27 times, not bad even Mugello with 29. If, however, we are talking about the most treacherous corner, the record goes to the first one at Sachsenring: 21 crashes there.
