Márquez wins Misano after an unimaginable duel not at all won in advance with Quartararo, in the process, the Catalan enters the legend... He beats, all engines combined, the record of 76 victories of Mike Hailwood, which is a nice sign of destiny, remained undefeated during the British GP, at Silverstone…
Print the legend… This is the best-known and most moving line from the cult cult film “ The Man Who Killed Liberty Valance » (1962, John Ford, with John Wayne, James Stewart and Lee Marvin). Exactly " This is the west sir, when the legend becomes facts, print the legend »… We are in the west sir, when the legend exceeds reality, we print the legend…
However, in fact, Quartararo almost went down in history, as a courageous and extremely talented knight. Márquez admitted it, at a moment that lasted a long time, he thought he wouldn't make it.
Fabio fought until the end, a phenomenal duel with the modern scarecrow of MotoGP. He could enter the history of the very rare French riders who won in 500 (Monneret, Sarron, Laconi), there are none yet in MotoGP… That will be for later, Fabio is still in history , Márquez has entered the legend…
Márquez did not need to win, he knew that his two followers in the general standings, Dovizioso and Rins were respectively in the dache and in the gravel…
By the way, here's some info that you haven't seen anywhere, the treatment done on the Misano tarmac to improve grip in the rain, which bothered the Ducatis so much in the dry, consists of pegging the tarmac. The real name of this operation is “ regrading », which is also done on motorways that are too smooth, nothing to do with my post on the race but I wanted to show off a bit and I called some friends who build motorways…
Okay, so Márquez doesn't need to win and I don't have a story there, at least not that one. I have a young Frenchman full of talent who managed to beat the best rider in the world on the best factory bike, that's another story... which didn't happen. I believed it though, damn what I believed it…
Márquez is Márquez, first of all leaving victory to Quartararo would have meant getting rid of the young French driver, whom he fears more than the others, he has said it again and again. You might as well delay the initiation into the liberating adrenaline of victory...
Then, when a guy resists him like that, an already old hero gets caught up in the game, still wants to say to himself that he fought with pleasure but above all that he won the unwinnable thing.
Then we understand guys like Rossi…
In short, as in the film mentioned above, the hero Márquez rewrote his story, the one that he was not supposed to win and that he was not obliged to win...
Print the legend!
There is another legendary fact which has undoubtedly gone more unnoticed, but which sends shivers down the spine in a country and on a circuit steeped in Italian motorcycle history.
Moto3 is won by the very young Japanese Suzuki… who rides for Sic…
Sic is the team created by the father of Marco Simoncelli, an incredibly talented young Italian driver who was killed in 2011 at Sepang. His nickname was " Sic »… The Misano circuit has decided to add to its name that of this Italian hero who died far too soon. And on the Marco Simoncelli circuit, the Simoncelli team won Moto3. A consolation for a country humiliated this weekend, no Italian victory, while in 2018, Dovizioso won the MotoGP, Bagnaia the Moto2, Dalla Porta the Moto3.
And a very big emotion. It's Japan who wins the race, it's a great Italian hero who is in the spotlight...
Print the legend!
For the rest, if you don't know this film, shame on you... I watch it again two or three times a year... and each time it's the same happiness... See you soon in Aragón...
