has been back Marc Márquez and change everyone’s face, not only in the Repsol Honda Teambut also, also to the engineers of the HRC competition department. Marquez reappear and appear, in the Austrian GPwhere Marc was only an observer, the big bosses Shinichi Kōkubu Y Tetsuhiro Kuwata, to tell their eight-time world champion that they were going to do whatever he asked them to get out of the hole. Márquez traveling to Motegi, to run the Japanese Grand Prix, and the all-powerful president of Honda appearing in his box, Toshihiro Mibeto tell him that they blindly trust him to get back on their feet.
the only one that counts
And it is that Márquez is the only one capable of piloting and evolving the RC213V, even the bad one, like this year’s. It is true, as the other official pilots complain, especially Pol Espargaro Y Alex Marquez, that they don’t pay any attention to them. They pay so little attention to them that they have already signed for Ducati and KTM, respectively, to run, in 2023, with those brands. “I have had the feeling during all the time that Marc has not been there that either they listened to us little or they did not listen to us. And it was Marc showing up at the Misano test and putting all of Honda to work for him. I think that Honda has lived in a state of shock while it has not had Marc & rdquor ;, ‘Polyccio’ recently confessed to Motorbike Magazine.
The other drivers can complain, okay, but the truth is that Márquez, despite missing six grand prix, is still the one who has scored the most points: 34 more than his brother, 35 more than ‘Polyccio’ and 38 more than Nakagami. It is logical and normal that Honda only thinks of Marc. That is why they ordered a new aluminum swingarm from Kalex as soon as Marc reappeared; That’s why they brought a new aerodynamic to Misano for Marc to test alone; that is why they have mounted a little wings on his tail in Phillip Island… and that is why Márquez awarded them the ‘pole’ in Motegi, the home of Honda, and today he has achieved the first row in Phillip Island, just 13 thousandths of second, from a vertiginous Jorge Martín (Ducati).
“Honda has lived in shock without Márquez. Until Marc did not appear, in Misano, they did not get to work”
Pol Espargaró / Repsol Honda Team Rider
Márquez is a prodigy of a rider and the only one capable of, in full recovery from his fourth operation on his arm, humerus and right shoulder, fighting with those in front, spending all Friday trying new things for next year’s Honda, using only the rehearsal on Saturday to prepare for the race and, in the Australian ‘quali’, be the second best. That is unimaginable in any other pilot after two years of viacrucis and four operations in tow, with the endless rehabilitation of him.
The important thing is 2023
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“I know that people expect me to achieve a podium and even a victory before the end of this World Championship, but that is not my programme, no”, explains the rider from Cervera (Lleida) to El Periódico. “If all the circumstances are given, which are many, I will try not to miss the opportunity that arises in Australia, Malaysia or Valencia, but the important thing is to work for 2023, both physically and technically. The motorcycle that must fly is the one from 2023 and I must be in good physical condition, to the fullest. That is the goal for this year.”
Márquez acknowledges that he is starting to be close to the best and that encourages him, not to win but positively in the face of full recovery. “Making good times, good races, means that the recovery is on the right track. I no longer have limitations. I can now train normally and even star, like today, ‘saved’ from before. ‘Saves’ in which the whole body, including the right arm, reacted appropriately, as in 2019 & rdquor ;.