It is too early, it seems too easy, it would be, it is, adding to the idea that is proliferating the most in the world of racing, in the environment of MotoGPmainly after seeing the spectacular (and fast, very happy) debut of Marc Márquez Alenta with the Ducati ‘Desmosedici’ 2023in the test of Cheste (Valencia), but Alex, the little brother of the eight-time motorcycle world champion, is absolutely convinced that his brother can be world champion with Ducati next year. “It’s very early, yes, there is a lot of competition, but I know Marc, I know his tremendous potential, I know why he has taken such a big step and I also know that this bike will be his in a short time. And, yes, why deny it “I also believe that Marc can be champion in 2024, in the year of his debut with Ducati,” Alex said in the ‘Everything Costs’ from yesterday, from Catalonia Radioto questions from Damià Aguilar.
Alex did not deny, as is normal, as everyone assumes, that he had spoken at length throughout 2023 with Marc regarding not only the extraordinary motorcycle that is the Ducati but also his personal and professional situation. “We are brothers, we are together all day, we live together, we train together, we travel together, we compete together, we have the same group of people who help us with everything, it is evident that we spend the day talking about our things and, yes, of course , racing, our profession. But Marc is very, very, smart, very intelligent and, in that sense, I am referring to the sense of changing from Honda to Ducati, of explaining to him what my motorcycle is like, I have not given him a second thought. “No moment. If you have asked me, and you have asked little, I have told you what I thought, but all the talks we have had have been as brothers, not as a Ducati Gresini rider.”
“I haven’t bothered Marc to come to Ducati. Marc is very, very, intelligent. When I talk to Marc, I talk as a brother, not as a Ducati rider”
Alex explained, in that sense, that he has also seen how much Marc has suffered, both personally and professionally, since the fall of 2020. “We are both drivers and, in that sense, we understand each other better than anyone else. I do too. There was a moment when I thought I should test myself because I wanted to know, when I went through a tough bump, whether I was good for this or not. Now Marc, after overcoming all his injuries, wants to know where he is and he has had this opportunity and he will try not to waste it. “.
The little Márquez family recognizes that, evidently, the motorcycle that Marc will encounter, with which he set spectacular times in the test of the Ricardo Tormo circuitfrom Valencia, “a route that he knows as the hallways at home and, therefore, it was much easier for him to get the bike there”, it will not be the official one, it will not be the one for 2024, but Alex believes that the bike for 2023 He has enough potential for Marc to be ahead.
“I suppose that Marc must have had, the day before getting on the Ducait for the first time, at the Cheste test, the same talk that I had, last year, with Gigi Dall’Igna (top person and creator of Ducati), the first thing he told me was ‘here we teach it and we give it our all, but if we find out that something has gone wrong, trust is gone.’ I liked that a lot and, the truth is, I am in a satellite team, Gresini, which is like a family and I have no complaints about Ducati’s behavior towards me” explained the youngest of the Márquez Alentá family, who recognizes that a rider finds out about few things. “Another thing is that Ducati loses one of its engineers and goes to another brand, they do know, but a rider doesn’t know the secrets of motorcycles.”
“The Ducati allows you to take risks when you want, it doesn’t force you to go above your possibilities. It has won with very different riders, so Marc will adapt to it too”
Alex admits not feeling fully satisfied with his first season with Ducati. “Man, yes, it’s okay, okay, I finished ninth in the World Championship and I would like to have finished higher, yes, although for my first year with this bike it is not bad. As is not having won two beautiful sprint races ‘, in two circuits as popular as Silverstone and Sepang, but I have had many zeros and I have been affected, at times, by unexpected mishaps in the race. In 2024, I must be more regular, I must aim for the top-5 at the end, Well, to finish in the top-3, ugh!, everything has to work out for you, but I know that with Marc by my side I’m going to experience a leap in quality, in driving, in set-up, I’m convinced that both of us “We are going to help each other a lot.”
Gresini, a family
And as to why the Ducati is such a dominating motorcycle, Alex Márquez is very clear. “That it is a great bike, without a doubt, the best on the MotoGP grid, is demonstrated not only by the fact that it has won, in 2023, the majority of races, but that it is a winner and fast in the hands of any of its riders, being driven with a multitude of styles and being ahead on all types of circuits and conditions. Alex considers that the great secret of this ‘Desmosedici’ is that it is such a good motorcycle “that you can be in front, saving something, a little, very little, but it does not force you to go above the danger to be in front. Only if you want to do the most difficult one, that is, going to 110×100, you are in danger of falling.
“The Ducati,” Alex ends by saying, “allows you to take risks when you want, it doesn’t force you to go above your possibilities. It has won with very different riders, which is why Marc will adapt to it too.” “In addition,” adds the brother, “Nadia Padovani’s team is a family team, where there is wonderful treatment and where the driver feels wonderful. Marc will love that environment although, logically, it hurts him to part with Santi ( Hernández, his lifelong engineer) and the rest of the mechanics.”
2023-12-22 22:49:35
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