2023-06-23 19:07:24
Marc Márquez He knows, at the age of 30, that he cannot win, not even touch the podium, or get into the top-5, or aspire to the title, not even the runner-up. He knows it because he has been in the business longer than anyone. world. He knows it because he has won more than anyone, in all circumstances and places, against all kinds of rivals and champions. He knows it because he has been able to turn a good bike into a champion bike. That’s the difference between an excellent rider and the best in the world: the best one wins, even with a (somewhat) inferior bike. But no one wins with a much inferior bike. And the Honda RC213V Currently it is a real ratchet.
Márquez, who now has to put up with all kinds of rumors like the one launched by DAZN yesterday by assuring that he had offered himself to KTM and that the Austrian firm had rejected him (does anyone seriously think that a brand without a title can reject the best rider in the world? , to the owner of eight world titlespossessor of 85 wins y 92 ‘poles’? Is there really anyone who believes such a hoax?), he acknowledges that his situation is fucked up, of course it is, but that he gets out of it “accepting the moment, lowering his head, silently, with humility, working hard, fighting all together , factory, driver and team, and that is how we will surely get out of this pothole”.
disappointing falls
Márquez was the first who, after the Misano miracle testlast September, where it was shown that the injuries were forgotten, he never believed that a situation like this would occur, I never imagined that his Honda, the usual one, would not even be ready for him to add what he had to add and be able to fight for the title and/or victories.
When he discovered, with pain, after a multitude of falls and small injuries (today his second rib is cracked, his left thumb broken and his right ankle badly hurt) that this bike is not at all up to his dreams, is when he decided , even if it is finishing 16th, try and race in Assen, the ‘cathedral’ of motorcycling, so as not to go on vacation with a bad taste in the mouth of Sachsenring (Germany), where he could not run after being damaged, and a lot, after five you fell in three days.
“The only thing I can say to the people who love me is the same thing that mine told me during these years of pain, injuries, operations and rehabilitation: patience, Marc, patience,” Márquez told El Periódico, aware that his 6.8 million followers on the networks are in a sinvivir. “We are going to turn the situation around, I am convinced because the three parts of this project, driver, team and factory, are pushing in the same direction.”
Marquez knows that the noise around you is unavoidable. What’s more, it hurts him that, now, everyone dares with him. But he does not intend to give up, nor give up the effort and sacrifice that has brought him here and, of course, he will work so that Japan, Honda, invent whatever and his team, the family of the circuit as he calls it, led by his engineer Santi Hernández, “who does not stop racking his brains, day and night, to devise solutions to this delicate situation”, help him rub shoulders with the best, with those who win.
“I am not going to repeat it 100 times: I have a contract with Honda until the end of 2024 and I will work with them to recover as soon as possible”
Marc Márquez / Repsol Honda Team Rider
The thumb hurts, but it is a “bearable” pain. He hurts, something else, the ankle, but “it does not prevent me from riding.” But it hurts and a lot, too much, especially in the last sector of Assen, where you have to push to round off the clock, the crack in the second rib, “too close to the shoulder, to the arm, to be forced to give up when you try to squeeze because the pain is unbearable.” But even so, Márquez rides in Assen in the times of the test drivers, not of a winner, but those times serve to provide good information to his team.
there is future
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“I could have stayed on the sofa at home or even brought my vacations earlier, but would someone in this situation really have done that? No, no one, so here I am. This cannot be fixed on the sofa or on the beach”, commented MM93, who acknowledged that “when I started the season I was like a bull, I was, physically, the best Márquez in years. Hence my times in Portimao, in Le Mans, my great lap behind ‘Pecco’ (Bagnaia) in Mugello, but…but things have become complicated for us and we must all row in the same direction, it cannot be that one side of the boat rows more than the other, so we would not go straight, we would not advance”.
The smile is still there, even though Alberto Puig, your boss, “understands that you are not happy.” They are days, weeks, months and vacations to bite the lips, but we are before the champion of the seven lives. Right, he’s already spent more than one. But not all, not all.
#patience #work #hard