Live reaction as Marc Marquez is crowned 2025 MotoGP world champion

Bagnaia tells the world feed before the podium:

"First of all I don't want to take out any spotlight from Marc that just arrived and he deserves any spoptlight today. But in any case, happy. 

"I'm just a little shame that it just arrived now, but happy for the weekend, happy for the performance, and I hope that from now on I will continue in this way because like this I can fight."

Race podium coming up now. Joan Mir tells the world feed broadcast:

"A long time without this feeling. You can't believe how happy I am. I think that this arrived in the perfect moment for us. 

"We fought a lot for this. I can't believe it. 

"Everything is worth it for this moment, so thank you so much to the team for all the work that they've been doing, for all the effort that they made to give me a competitive bike, and also to all the effort they made to help myself in the difficult moments. 

"It's unbelievable. I'm so happy, so hopefully we can continue like this, that is the most difficult thing. But once we achieved one podium, now we already make it so now we just have to repeat it."

Marc Marquez says he's "at peace" after winning his ninth title.

He tells the world feed broadcast on the championship podium: "It's impossible even to speak. I don't want to remember what I put away, I just want to enjoy the moment, but it's true that it was difficult. 

"It was super-difficult. But now I'm at peace with myself. So, I did a big mistake for my career to come back to early and then I fight, fight, fight. I'm at peace."

Honestly unsure if they're actually going to do a race podium here. Bagnaia's and Mir's bikes are both in parc ferme along with top independent Morbidelli's, so presumably it's happening at some point.

Marquez now on a podium on the pit straight putting his name on the refreshed Tower of Champions that was unveiled in Misano a couple of weeks ago.

Slightly bizarre, if understandable, post-race with almost no recognition of the race that just happened in the past 20 minutes.

Ducati Lenovo Team Manager Davide Tardozzi says the combination of Marquez's title and Bagnaia's victory will be something that stays with him "forever".

"It's the perfect day to win the championship here in Japan and having Pecco [Bagnaia] back like he did yesterday and today is something amazing," he told the MotoGP world feed broadcast.

"It's something that we can't even dream and I think it's something that we will keep in the heart and in the mind forever."

Still more smoke from Bagnaia's bike. 

Mir still third. How ironic that Mir could return to the podium for Honda on the day Marquez wins the championship, two years on from his last HRC rostrum days before he quit the team?

Ducati is in discussions with technical control right now. The gap for Bagnaia is down to 2.7s.