Updated:05/31/2021 00:29h
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Mugello is not the best circuit for a punished body. Very physically demanding, full of curves, jokes and changes of direction. And for this Marc Márquez Still progressing, it was going to be a suffering of 23 laps, not because of the almost completely healed humerus, but because of that shoulder that has been crushed by the MotoGP requirement. The Honda did not even finish first, as he collided with Brad Binder in the first few meters and went to the ground. Zero in his locker, the second in a row after also crashing at Le Mans a fortnight ago.
«I have played with Binder, it has been a career set, but if someone is to blame it is me. I was coming from behind and I tried to overtake, several riders fell at the chicane, and he was coming from one side, I from the other, and it closed for me. The fault has been mine “, affirmed the ilerdense. However, the Honda is the first and the only one who knows where it is and where it comes from. Hence, this second crash in his fourth race of the course is not too bad. And let him always look optimistically: «Unfortunately, we finished the race much earlier than we expected and really It has not been a good situation, because I need laps with the bike. But I keep that we will be fresher for Montmeló ». There he answered the question that was flying over his garage this weekend. He had confessed that after the race in Jerez he thought about taking a break, and Alberto Puig, Honda boss, also opened the door to that possibility at Mugello. But without playing a full lap at Mugello, the body will be in better condition to drive this Sunday. And beyond the physical, Márquez points to an apparently small change, but one that for him means a world: «I am left with the feeling of the first round that, for the first time, I saw myself in a position to attack and not to defend. My career would have been very long, but I have understood some things that have been good for me ».
This was the fall of Márquez
You already know that adding a point or ten changes little for Honda’s aspirations, which has not just rediscovered the golden path to which the ilerdense accustomed them and has taken two courses without joys. Because Márquez is still in the progress of being himself again and because Pol Espargaró – twelfth – has not yet managed to adapt one hundred percent to the saddle.
In the absence of Márquez, and his leadership, a Fabio Quartararo who won again yesterday with an astonishing superiority. His pulse no longer trembles, as it did in 2020 when he was surprised by his own good results. He is already a prominent leader in the ranking and on the track, with more than three seconds ahead of Oliveira and Mir. The Mallorcan has also recovered part of the champion’s spirit that won him to the title last year. Patient and aggressive in the second part of the race, he could not beat the Portuguese but adds the 500th podium in the history of the maximum category for Spanish motorcycling.
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