Casey Stoner had a short but intense career in Grand Prix, an environment that he marked with his natural talent, his incredible ability to climb on a motorcycle and get all the quintessence from it as soon as he discovered it. In MotoGP, this ease cracked the veneer of many established values, but the phenomenon ceased its activity in 2012, leaving its place at Honda to a certain Marc Marquez. A space that the Spaniard occupied magnificently, as everyone knows, but which he did not want to share with anyone. And especially not with the Australian when the latter returned to the Honda fold as a test driver. He remembers...
In the history of Grands Prix, there are duels that we narrowly missed and which would undoubtedly have been worth their weight in gold. But we will remain eternally hungry and among these failed acts, there is this confrontation between Casey Stoner et Marc Marquez. A lost scenario which is often proposed to the Australian to know his feeling on what would have been the outcome of this battle. And he answers: “ I always get asked this question » he admitted on Tutomotoriweb. " Do I think I could have beaten Marc? Yes, in some races. If Andrea Dovizioso, Jorge Lorenzo, Valentino Rossi and Dani Pedrosa did it, then I could have done it too ". But he also revealed: “ Marc has closed the gap again with many of his weaknesses and he would be hard to beat ».
Casey Stoner: “chez Honda, ils n’ont jamais vraiment exploité mon potentiel"
But what bothers Casey Stoner, it is not the undecided outcome of a duel that will never take place. It is rather the attitude of Marc Marquez and of his clan which grieves him: “ At Honda I was just an occasional tester, I had no other role and, to be honest, they never really tapped into my potential ", said Casey Stoner.
And the Australian draws this certainty: “ I think Marquez and everyone around him felt threatened by me. I don't know why they thought that, but that's my feeling. I was at Honda doing tests, trying new things that could then be passed on to the factory riders, so I was there to help Marc. But it's also true that the number one driver is the one everyone must follow ". A policy which means that when you miss this central being, everything is depopulated. A precariousness which is also present today among Yamaha .
