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The first part of this season had already revealed Marc Márquez even more at the top of his art. But since the resumption of hostilities at the end of the MotoGP summer break, the HRC phenomenon still dazzles its contemporaries a little more each time. His performance at the last Grand Prix of the Czech Republic left everyone speechless since a sumptuous qualifying. In Austria, before this Sunday's race, the paddock sees the field of ruin left by the Spaniard who put more than four tenths behind a peloton which is fighting its own battle with thousandths...

That being said, here it is now Marc Márquez leading 59 pole positions at 26 years old. An absolute record. Luca Cadalora, three-time World Champion and track coach of Valentino Rossi from 2016 to 2018, now retired, comments on the Honda official: “ I have never seen such a thing. He is scary. He is very strong. He risks so much, he doesn't always reason, or rather he always reasons for maximum performance ».

« I am sure of one thing: Honda will never let their number one go, they know they have to keep him. But if that happens by chance, without Márquez, Honda would have problems: how are they going to remake this bike? It's the bike made for him: the front crosses on average three times during the weekend and if Marc catches up three times, for the others, it's three falls without them ever understanding how they could have get there ».

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