The Marc Marquez that we will find in 2023 will not be a new man but repaired as best as possible after his 2020 humerus injury and what followed. Because before his last chance operation in the United States, and a priori successful, everything was poorly done and managed. An assessment never presented in this open way but which exudes at every opportunity that the eight-time World Champion seizes to talk about his last three years of struggle. That being said, we learn that he has not only regained his physical form to the best of his situation, which will no longer be what it was before. His mental strengthening was also on the program with this learning, surprisingly admitted, of discernment in the face of risks...
In an unfiltered media interview GQ, we discover a Marc Marquez returned from hell, who nevertheless remains a competitive demon, but now with a pinch of wisdom. For his case, and after what he went through, it became a question of survival, and we are not just talking about his career... Before going into detail, the official Honda first made this observation: “ the Jerez thing happened because of my mentality and my ambition. But everything I accomplished from 2013 to 2020, I also achieved with this mentality and this ambition, so if you take the 10 years as a whole, it's balanced ". But it's still a high price to pay, and his body no longer has any change to give in the event of another hard blow, not to mention that he lives on credit since diplopia can present a new bill at any time.
So he comes to this mental training in his training program: “ one of the mental exercises I do when I go to train is to measure the risk » reveals the almost thirty-year-old Spaniard. “ The guys with me always have to tell me 'Marc, be careful here', or 'Marc, be careful there'. This is something I've been working on a lot lately, because I struggle to see the risk, and while it's sometimes a strong point, it's also on other occasions a weak point ».
Marc Marquez: “I will continue to take the same risk on the track, I will always assume this risk"
A revelation that raises questions. Thus, by defusing in this way Marc Marquez, don't we risk losing it? On this point, the eight-time world champion reassures: he is and will remain a real animal. An image that he assumes when recounting this episode with his American doctors: “ it's a wild animal that you have in a cage right now. When you open it, I'll run away, so only open it when you see me ready, when you know it's safe. I told them like that, just like that, and they understood and said to me: 'Well, three months in peace' ».
Car Marc Marquez is done as follows: “ racing to fill the starting grid, makes no sense to me. My intention is to win and that's what I'm preparing for: to win. I will continue to take the same risk on the track. I will always assume this risk, because the day I stop doing it, I will start to slow down and then it will be time to go home ". Can't wait for this MotoGP season to begin, hoping that Honda will have done his homework.
