Just two years ago, injured and at the end of his story with Honda, he said enough. We must return there, to the Sachsenring 2023, to understand the size of the company that the Spaniard is making
Now it seems all inescapable. Marc Marquez is stronger, is unbeatable, he found the perfect square on the most modern and performing of the Ducati. So there is nothing to do, and everything is already written. Nevertheless. Yet two years ago, not twenty, on the same circuit in which everything had always succeeded, he had given up. He had not surrendered when the Homer had fractured. He hadn’t gone when twice one eye had enchanted him and the diplopia showed him everything doubled. He had resisted five surgery and had returned to the track every time with the same anger and determination. But two years ago exactly at Sachsenring had said enough: after falling five times among free, qualifications and sprints. “I don’t feel like running anymore,” he said. And Roberto Duran’s “no Mas” had seemed under Sugar Ray Leonard’s punches. Except that Marc the fists did not give them their opponents: it was his condition that braked him and the unrecognizable Honda who gave him, inexorably, the coup de grace. Marquez had not raced at Sachsenring, where he had already won 11 times. Ten of which starting from the pole, in a supremacy that had few other precedents (Agostini to Imatra …), the eleventh already after the 2020 injury, in the 2021 edition, in a sign of rebirth that could only think about it only there, on the hills of Saxony. And who had deluded him. Because the worst would have been neither the broken bones nor the split view, but his motorbike suddenly became gangled for him.