Alex Marquez knows it: this season, riding a Honda means risking an accident more than his other MotoGP colleagues. Thus, no less than 25 falls were suffered by the four HRC drivers, or a third of the total in the premier category. 7 are to be attributed to Pol Espargarò and Alex Marquez, 6 to Marc Marquez who missed the first two races in Qatar. The rest is for Nakagami. Fortunately for the winged coat of arms, all these beautiful people are unharmed. But suffering is still on the agenda. And for the youngest Marquez, it is especially felt for others…
Alberto puig, the leader of the troops Honda on the Grand Prix field called on Tokyo engineers to find a solution to this epidemic of falls which is affecting its drivers. A redundancy of accidents which cannot only be explained by piloting errors. “ We need to improve the bike and that's what the engineers are trying to do » commented the Spaniard. “ They know the deadline. The next two races at Mugello and Barcelona are two very demanding tracks, especially Mugello, and we need to find a very balanced bike. Let's see if we can have some solutions. We have a duty to do our best. We are growing, but the Honda still needs to improve a lot ».
In the meantime, here is the daily life of a Alex Marquez : " we are not in our best time with grip. When we make a mistake, our bike is a little more critical at that point. I'm not at my best. I lack confidence with the front. I lost it in Jerez, for example. But at Le Mans we tried something else, which made me go back. So I would say my confidence is 80% ».
Alex Marquez: “if my fall is on the air, I watch it, I have no problem”
Falling more often than not affects your morale and physique. But Alex Marquez seems equipped to face this type of crisis. Thus, and in relation to other pilots who have displayed a certain sensitivity on the subject, he says on the diffusion of falls: “ no, I have no problem. If my punchline is on the air, I watch it, I have no problem ". It must also be said that he was trained in a certain way in the box Honda … “ Alberto Puig told me when I started in MotoGP : “don’t worry about falls. If it's a way of learning and you have to fall 40 times before you're there. And don't worry about the bike. It's something that stuck with me ».
But what has also remained with him are the values adopted since the start of his career. So, for him, a fall still has consequences, which he confided to Nico Abad on his Twitch channel: “ cevery time I fall, I suffer for the mechanics. It's something I've worn since childhood ". A noble feeling.
