The series of five Grands Prix which got a MotoGP season off to a flying start which seems to be trying to make up for lost time is taking a break. Hostilities will resume, with the same intensity, in Misano, from September 11. Before getting sucked into this whirlwind, the opportunity is given to look at the facts which marked this start to the campaign. Among these, the injury of Marc Marquez and his management. Who asked the question? The response from a team manager is therefore interesting. And it comes from Davide Brivio…
The case Marc Marquez this season interests and provokes comments. However, he is not there. The eight-time World Champion is convalescing after a humerus fracture contracted after a fall during a race and operated on twice. It is precisely this detail that is striking. We will not return to the management of Spanish Grand Prix inaugural of this disheveled season. Many say that rather than pushing its driver, the stand Repsol Honda should have started to calm him down, once the podium prospects were assured, after a crazy comeback.
The exploit therefore turned into a disaster. But the worst was to come. After this bad fall which left him with a broken humerus, Marc Marquez returned four days after his operation for the Andalusian Grand Prix. He only lasted until Saturday before his body brought him back to his senses. Later, it was claimed that it was a domestic accident to explain that his plate had just failed.
The pilot, the only master on board?
Here too, where was the pilot's supervision to manage it? From the box Suzuki, the one who is in charge and who finds himself in this situation with a alex rins to the shoulder weakened to the point that it can give way at any time in the event of another fall, provides an element of the answer. It is Davide Brivio which ensures that what seems simple is in fact very complicated.
Davide Brivio thus explains that the fact of wanting to return in the second race of Jerez after the operation was the decision to Marc Marquez, which was completely understandable for the Italian: “ Márquez wanted to try, and when a driver insists, it is difficult to stop him. Márquez was eager to return to the World Championship and I imagine Honda approved this request ».
But we know the rest. The year is already over for Marc Marquez who learned the lesson. He will only return in a few months, and being certain of his level of form. A situation which will perhaps serve as an experience for everyone, for drivers and team managers alike, who now have an example to put forward to calm the wildest enthusiasm...
