Marc Marquez, reigning world champion and one of the most successful motorcycle racers of all time, won the Valencia GP on Sunday to notch up his 12th victory of the season and also secured the teams' world title for the Repsol Honda team.

Despite starting Sunday's race behind Petronas Yamaha's pole-sitter Fabio Quartararo, the 26-year-old Spaniard overtook the French rookie with a superb maneuver, in the eighth lap and held on to his lead to finish the race in 41 minutes, 21.469 seconds. Quartararo finished 1.026 seconds behind Marquez to grab the second place, while Australia's Jack Miller was third for the non-works Pramac Ducati team.

Incidentally, Marquez, who had already won his sixth world title last month after winning the Thailand GP, recovered from an early fall to top the warm-up session earlier in the day.

He blazed off the track during the race and looked unstoppable throughout despite having a tentative and sluggish start.

Marquez's victory on home soil helped the Repsol Honda team capture the championship overtaking Ducati. The constructors' title too was added to their tally as Marquez and his team won a memorable triple crown.

After his emphatic triumph, Marquez said, "Again, one more year and was amazing show and I think we did a good job everybody, but yeah, our season, all my team is here and the team Honda working in a perfect way and we achieve incredible things and that is finish all the races first, second, second, first, first, second, it's just we miss the Austin (the U.S.), that was the race that was more or less, more, under control but anyway a part of that just I'm happy, very good season but a part of that, without my team, without all my sponsors, would be impossible."

Meanwhile, triple MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo, who announced on Thursday that he would say goodbye to the sport at the end of the season, kept his cool in windy conditions and showed some promise and his vintage form.

However, the 32-year-old Mallorcan, representing Repsol Honda, brought an end to his long and illustrious career and an injury-blighted season in 13th place. Meanwhile, South African Brad Binder won the Moto2 race on a KTM after a neck and neck battle with Kalex rider Thomas Luthi of Switzerland.

Interestingly, Marquez's brother Alex Marquez slid off before getting up to restart and disastrously finished last.