Marc Márquez I was elated after the long MotoGP race in Germany. More than for his enormous comeback, from 13th to second, for being able to share the podium with his brother Álex, a teammate at Gresini, where everything was a party. The eight-time champion admitted his aggressiveness towards Morbidelli and recounted his growth.
Physical state.
“Much better. I don’t hide and when I’m stiff, I’m stiff and when I’m stiff you can see it. Today, I arrived at the box and I said: ‘Today I’m better.’ Above all, because yesterday I had the strong impact, which I already know.” He ruled out a fracture in the ribs and it was all muscular. Today, the ‘physis’ have done a great job; it is true that I left with a powerful cocktail for the race, but this morning I felt much better. I told the team: ‘Today it’s not going to hinder me at all.’ The finger, already yesterday, hurts, but it doesn’t affect the riding, the ribs, yesterday, yes. The thorax is what you move the bike with today. , better”.
The comeback and his touches with Morbidelli.
“Ignited with Morbidelli? Yes, I’m not going to deceive you, it has been seen. He was very constant, making a very constant, very precise comeback, without exaggerating. It’s what I said yesterday: ‘Wherever I arrive, I will arrive’. I knew that I had pace, that I would pick them up and I dedicated myself to staying calm. With Morbidelli, I was having a hard time overtaking, but I was patient, I saw that he was using the tire a lot and I said: ‘Sooner or later he will start to go slower.’ I had the podium between my eyebrows, because I had my brother there in front of me. With Morbidelli, he had already gone wide two laps ago and I had told him: ‘If you go wide again, I’ll put it in here.’ He went longer and I say: ‘Well, I’m going’. He closed hard, strong contact, I almost fell off and then, when I had him in front of me, I caught him in the last corner and gave him a little bit. “I came in strong, but it was the only way to get in. If they play hard, I play hard.”
Go to Alex.
“I was catching my brother and I knew what he was doing with each lap. And I said: ‘Because of the way I’m doing it, with two or one laps left, I didn’t feel like risking the podium with my brother.’ Because it would have been in the last corner. It was the place where I felt most comfortable and I didn’t feel like anything. But, unfortunately for Martín, he is fine, but this time luck has fallen on our side, when we have seen his fall, I have already seen that he (Álex) relaxed, I also saw that we have positioned ourselves, on the descent I passed it cleanly, and that last lap, we went slower, which normally you push, we both already understood, in quotes, what our position was. on the podium and celebrate together.
Better two brothers on the podium than one victory.
“Being able to share a MotoGP podium, in the highest category in the world, with your brother, is something that I saw as unattainable this year. It’s already difficult for me to be on the podium, he, so far, doesn’t care either. Things were going as I expected. I did hope, I said: ‘Maybe a day in the water, if it suits both of us, but to be able to do it here, in a fast race, in the dry, pulling from the beginning… Yes. “On Thursday you tell me: ‘You won’t win, but you will share the podium with Álex’ and I’ll sign it.”
Relationship with Alex.
“I think he has done more for me than I have done for him. He has had to put up with being ‘the brother of’ until he became Álex Márquez. I have always emphasized this. I give him more credit. He has known turning around being ‘the brother of’ to creating a rider, a name and a position in MotoGP, he has renewed for two more years, this gives a rider, a person, peace of mind and helps him enjoy himself, to ride better “He celebrated it in the best way, so I’m super happy for him.”
High.
“This year, I have had several. You can see me, I am super relaxed, this year I am enjoying every moment. I have said why a thousand times. Last year I was in a situation; this year, this second place tastes like victory, “But I have also celebrated second places and third places in the best way. Why? Because I have learned in life that the bad things in life come by themselves and the good things have to be fought for, pursued and when they come, you have to enjoy them.”
