This pole position for Marc Márquez in this Grand Prix of the Czech Republic will be remembered. And not only because with this new achievement he brought his score in the specialty to 58, which makes him the equal of Mick Doohan. No. There was a way to do it. Panache and determination against all, including against his team who wondered if, this time, he had not gone too far in audacity. He blew them all. Starting with Alberto Puig who is not the partridge of the year!
To arouse the admiration of a Alberto puig, you have to be more than admirable. And that's what Marc Márquez was, during the twisty Q2 which took place on Saturday on the Brno track. Repsol Honda Team Principal commented: “ it was a very critical situation, because he was not ranked very well. He was eighth and there was a lot of risk due to the conditions. In the last laps it started to rain a little in the last part of the circuit " said Puig to AS media.
« In fact, we were in tension. We didn't expect it to rain at the end. We knew that if it didn't rain we could go with the slicks to the limit, but when we saw it was raining we thought it wasn't working ».
And it worked! “ The adrenaline made him very focused and that second round, even knowing there was a risk, he did well because he was totally focused on the story. It wasn't that he stopped thinking about the risk or danger he was running, but he focused on completing his job, which was to finish the round ».
This observation made, the same Alberto puig be loose : " this guy is doing amazing things, but i think the most important thing is what he does daily and it's very clear to the kid » explained Alberto. “ Marc thinks of nothing other than working day after day with the team, with his mechanics and with his staff. Each day that passes, he does it in search of this goal of winning a race, then another, a championship, then another. He goes from race to race and he trains to train. He has that deep within him and it's his strength ».
He finishes : " but what am I going to say about Márquez? What no one can do, he can do. There's a lot to say about this guy ».
