Since the Sepang 2015 affair, Marc Márquez has been accustomed to whistles and malicious gestures against him.
Obviously, in the temple of Mugello, he knew what to expect from certain tifosi whose passion has no limits: in Italy, we are Latin, therefore often extroverted, hot, demonstrative, but sometimes also unfortunately , excessive.
You just have to look at the hills overlooking the circuit to discover things that are sometimes enough to make even the most understanding observers grimace...
“God forgive, Mugello No! » is one of the maxims that sums up the atmosphere of the place well, but some much more abject images, photomontage or not, have circulated on the Internet!
This phenomenon is not limited to Italy, and those of you who went to Le Mans were able to see it, even if it is obviously on the Doctor's lands that it is most extreme.
Marc Márquez, who is whistled every time he appears on the screen, was therefore applauded when he fell during the 3rd lap of this Italian Grand Prix, and all the more so with these attacks more than muscular on Danilo Petrucci (Misano 2017 and Mugello 2018). So hardly enough to redeem him in the eyes of the most fanatical of the Italian public…
Questioned on the subject, the Spanish champion, obviously internally wounded, replied: “It’s something I expected. Celebrating the fall of a driver is sad because we take risks on the track. I don't know if many people celebrated my crash today, but it's curious that they celebrated the crash of one driver rather than the victory of another. It's a curious thing about motorcycle racing.
For me it said it all when on Friday we saw a rider in the gravel and we didn't know how he was, if he was dead or alive, and they only focused on making fun of the one they saw in front of the cameras. That says it all.
If you want to celebrate the fall of a pilot, do it internally. It's a motorcycle race and we put our lives on the line on the track. Either way, it's something we can't control, but it's something I ask my fans to never do to another driver.
I said before in 2015 and 2016 that I hope they support the race as much as I do and respect all the runners. It is the most important ".
Wise and measured words... which unfortunately will probably have no effect!
