It's a little sentence that Marc Marquez said upon arriving in Portimao and which revealed that as dazzling as he may appear, the eight-time World Champion is not stainless. For a little over two years now, he has been experiencing physical problems, continuing to fall heavily, ending each day hoping that the start of the next one will not reveal the return of diplopia while he no longer speaks about his right arm , he still left his beloved Catalonia to settle in Madrid and entrust himself to the team of doctors who reconstructed the tennis player Nadal. So yes, all of that wears man out, in his body and in his head…
Marc Marquez is an authentic example of tenacity, the physical embodiment of the notion of panache, and undoubtedly one of the world's top athletes who shows how far beyond ordinary mortals these individuals are. But fundamentally, he is a human being and everything he has gone through since his accident in Jerez in 2020 weighs on him. And especially since nothing is happening normally yet. The falls continue, the injuries return and the Honda, although revisited, is not yet there.
“In his head, Marc Marquez realized that he was no longer made of rubber”
He also appealed to the brand to helps him get back to the top. However, time passes and morale experiences drops in tension. A fluctuation that Marc Marquez very honestly recognized before embarking on his Portuguese Grand Prix : “ obviously when things go well and when you win one race after another or always finish on the podium, it's easy to find motivation and it's also easy to train. It's a bit like having double the energy circulating in the body ».
And he specifies Tutomotoriweb : " but when difficult times arrive and persist, that's the time when you have to give your best, work hard because sometimes you don't want to wake up and go to training sessions, but that's it. is exactly what you should do and that's what I do ". And he ends: “ so you have to try to remember the good times to conquer them in the future ».
To these remarks, we will add those of Danilo Petrucci on GP One who crossed the path of Marc Marquez in the paddock in Austin: “ I spoke to him on Saturday, he came to greet me after the first MotoAmerica race. He told me he was really tired, his eyes were red and you could see he was really in pain.. He told me he had arm problems and wasn't trained well. In MotoGP everyone is good today, I understand that Marquez is the phenomenon. It's possible, but I don't know if it's still the case today. In his mind, he realized that he was no longer made of rubber. The Marquez of three years ago and the one of today are different ».
