The smallest MotoGP championship point margin since 2002 is four points.
Marc Márquez beat Jorge Lorenzo by four points in the 2013 MotoGP World Championship, scoring 334 points to Lorenzo’s 330. Márquez secured the title in his rookie premier-class season at Valencia, where Lorenzo won the race but Márquez finished third.
The championship had tightened dramatically late in the year. Márquez arrived at the finale with a 13-point advantage, but the final race reduced that gap to four. His advantage was enough because the season ended there, making 2013 one of MotoGP’s closest modern title battles.
The result is often confused with the five-point margins in 2006 and 2015, when Nicky Hayden beat Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo beat Rossi, respectively. Another common error is quoting the pre-final-round gap rather than the final championship margin.