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Marc Márquez is the dominant species in MotoGP right now. On the track and results side, no one denies it, and he even goes as far as his direct opponent for the title for more than two years now, Andrea Dovizioso, to insist on this status. But that doesn't mean his playmates are resigned. We saw with Álex Rins during qualifying on Saturday in Brno: if you let people believe too much in a certain complacency, you attract hostility. An adventure that Rossi returned to, forgetting nothing…

Valentino Rossi was the one who threaded successes like others pearls. Or rather like Marc Márquez currently does. Between the two men, the passing of the baton, which also held for a moment Stoner et Lorenzo, was done in pain, with the culmination and the start of everything that has followed since, an incident during the 2015 Malaysian Grand Prix.

There have been ups and downs and we would say that currently, we are at a standstill between the two men. But it wouldn't take much for the fire to start again. Like a story of a broken engine on Friday at Brno and a return to the clutch in the pit rather than an immediate stop at the side of the track. To the security commission, Marc Márquez spoke about this initiative Red and on the risk of oil on the track.

Here we are on Saturday and with the incident between Kidneys et Márquez. Which brought strong comments from the first mentioned. It was a great opportunity for the Doctor to give his Friday credit back to the Honda official… “ Márquez and I are a little different, especially when it comes to how we behave on the track. I always behaved very differently from him ».

He pursues : " I was always told that I played on the psychology of my opponents. But I believe what matters is how strong you are. If you are the one who is the fastest, you simply make the difference ».

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