MotoGP Álex Márquez (Honda): “Marc never liked losing, even at marbles”

Álex Márquez was the leader of the gathering of 20 young people happy to already experience a special moment in their early passion for motorcycles. The Allianz Junior Motor Camp is for that purpose and the Márquez family is involved in it at every meeting. Unfortunately, this edition was like the previous one, without the icon Marc Márquez. Last year, he was recovering from an operation on his left shoulder and this time, he was recovering after surgery on his right shoulder... So, it's the cadet Alex and also now his teammate at Honda who stuck to it, not without making a few confidences…

Alex Marquez is the reigning Moto2 World Champion and he is even a double crowned champion, since he was crowned in 2014 in Moto3. In 2020, he will be in MotoGP with the particularity of being the only one to be able to claim such a record, an achievement in the two categories which brighten up the Grands Prix. So he now needs the major discipline in his pocket to make the grand slam, but it won't be easy. Because he will have to beat his illustrious brother Marc with the same material Honda...

This prospect of fratricidal struggle amuses Alex Marquez , because it reminds him of some jousts he experienced when the Márquez were children… “ If you look at his left cheekbone, you will see that he has a mark... It's the memory of my nail! It was deep and faded with time. We had fought after one of those typical arguments between brothers when one wins a game and the other loses. But Marc never liked losing, even at marbles! » laughs the new HRC official.

« Il a trois ans de plus que moi et il a toujours eu une longueur d’avance. J’ai toujours hérité de ses motos, de ses vêtements, c’est ce que doivent faire les petits frères. Sans aller plus loin, l’autre jour du test de Jerez, il m’a dit : “dans ces deux courbes, tu passes déjà trop près de ma ligne, il va falloir qu’on cause ! » smiled Alex.

To a question about the family reunion under the Honda awning, we pointed out to him that only the mother and his father were missing… He replied: “ I would put my mother as head of hospitality and my father as team manager between the two of us. But it won't be good because what do children usually do? They try to leave the house to play. Imagine that we both leave the box... It's better that it stays like that! », finishes Álex in great form on Mundodeportivo.