MADRID, 11 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
“I think it is a mistake to start with a realistic objective or expectation because an expectation now would have to be high, otherwise it would be deceiving. You cannot set an expectation, much less express it because then the level of frustration can be great,” he warns. Marc Márquez in an interview provided this Thursday by Estrella Galicia 0.0.
The one from Cervera insists that he changed from Honda to Ducati “to try to smile inside the helmet, to feel those butterflies of going to a Grand Prix again.” “Logically, I would like to be fighting in the top positions, but we will see if it is punctual, if I can be consistent there, if not I can’t. We have a preseason ahead where there is a lot of work to do,” he added.
The eight-time world champion shares this interview with his brother Alex, with whom he will share the box at Gresini Racing. They already did it in 2020 at the Repsol Honda, a ‘short’ experience due to the injury that the eldest suffered in Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz) and since which both have “learned quite different things.”
“Álex has been trained in a category and I have learned life lessons, more than professional ones, they have been personal ones and also how to face the different problems that you encounter along the way,” remarked the man from Ilerda, who believes that now they will be “true companions”.
In this sense, in 2020 everything “was very different.” “I simply thought about the title, he was a ‘rookie’ and I thought about learning. Now the roles are different, I am in a position in which I am going to try to rediscover myself and Álex last year already showed where he is now,” he stressed.
Márquez does not forget that both he and his brother are “for competition”, something that comes in their “genes”. “If I can beat him, the better, and if he can beat me, the better for him. The main thing is also to try to help each other as we have always done at home. Being in a family team like Gresini’s is also important, that union also makes the strength. You have a good atmosphere and it is completely different from that of a factory team, in which each one goes more to their own thing,” he confessed.
The six-time MotoGP champion knows that his brother “is capable” of doing well on Sundays in the long races where “there is the big difference of being able to aspire to something big or not” and if “you are capable of fighting for the top positions constantly in every Grand Prix or only occasionally”.
“Alex, in his last races, I myself suffered as a rival. He was fast and, especially in Malaysia, he was very fast. He has the level, we have to find a way to be constant,” warned the Catalan, who did not He will have “no qualms” about overtaking him, although he does not hide that because he is his brother he will have to be “a little more careful.” “But it is impossible to control that, since it almost ‘takes me’ in Mugello in 2022. He didn’t do it intentionally, but, obviously, we are going at 350 km/h and it is very difficult to control all the situations,” he pointed out.
“Obviously, whether it’s your brother or another rival, the first thing you always have to do is finish the race. Overtaking in the last laps is more extreme than in the middle of the race, but you always have to try to have that margin of safety.” ‘Because, in the last laps, many times, without wanting to, you overtake and things happen that have happened and will continue to happen,” he said in this regard.
2024-01-11 13:50:25
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