Marc Marquez liked this 2022 MotoGP championship from which he was only able to bring home a pole position and a podium with his wayward Honda from which he fell 18 times. No victory therefore, except that won against his right arm thanks to a fourth and final operation. The latter will still bother him until the end of his days but, at least, for the rest of his career, it should do the trick. He gives us an interesting assessment of the past campaign which can be summarized as follows: a good rider triumphed with the best machine but he was not the best rider...
Marc Marquez keeps the winter news on the other side of the Pyrenees, waiting to shine on the world with an opus on Amazon revealing everything about his ordeal that began after the bad fall at Jerez in 2020. After various confidences, he delivered his feelings about a 2022 MotoGP season where he experienced a before and after month of June, a moment which meant his last surgery on the right arm in the United States.
We discover his words on motorsport total : " it was a great championship. The first part of the season was defined by a driver and a brand. Or rather it was a pilot because Quartararo made the difference » he specifies before adding: “ in the second part of the season, he was devoured by the best bike in the field ". However, the eight-time World Champion does not completely exonerate the Frenchman titled in 2021: “ but he also did errors ».
Marc Marquez: “there has been a generational change"
In the current MotoGP peloton, Marc Marquez is one of the most experienced pilots. Three of the four rookies of the 2019 MotoGP season – fabio quartararo, Francesco Bagnaia et Joan mir – took the World Champion titles while he struggled with his health problems, not to mention his Honda. But the fact is there and he recognizes it: “ there was one generational change. Young pilots arrived and you have to reinvent yourself to stay on top ».
Marc Marquez, who turns 30 next year and completes his 11th season in the premier class is keen to be back among the World Championship contenders after missing out on the championship titles in 2020, 2021 and 2022. And he is determined to to give everything : " on the one hand you have to do it correctly and on the other hand everyone wants to win. There is only room for one driver on the top step of the podium, so you try everything to be able to win », Warns the Spaniard.
It will be recalled that in 2023, the sprint races will give important points bringing the maximum capital to be taken per weekend to 37 instead of 25 previously. From 21 we also go to 42 games. This campaign will be testing with two new Grands Prix and very clever who can already decide who will emerge victorious...
