Everything is going well for Marc Márquez after the first MotoGP 2018 tests which have just ended on the Valencia circuit (see here).
The Honda driver was indeed the fastest in front of his teammate Dani Pedrosa, which seems to show that the 2018 Honda is well born, a hypothesis confirmed by the final sixth place of Cal Crutchlow (see here).
As a result, unlike the latter who will continue its development, the presence of drivers from the official Repsol Honda team is not essential for the private tests which will take place on November 22 and 23 in Jerez. And if Marc Márquez will be present there, it will only be to observe his brother's first real day of testing. Alex riding a MotoGP, a gift given by the Marc VDS team to the youngest of the two brothers to continue to develop the team Tom Luthi, After the service carried out with Takumi Takahashi during testing in Valencia.
“I'm not going to shoot in Jerez, II’ll just be there to enjoy it” told Marc Márquez at the end of the post-GP tests in Valencia, before talking about his brother: “you can’t ask him for a lot of things. It will be a one-day test, and he needs to enjoy the experience. It's just something to have fun with. Of course the team asked her to do it, because she needs to learn, just like the mechanics. But he has to have fun, and from what the rookies say, for sure, the first time you ride in MotoGP, everything is positive.
He did five laps at Valencia two years ago, then two laps at Misano, but never a real test. He must therefore enjoy the experience and of course, eat a lot in the morning because there is more power! »
