Nine world titles, 99 victories, 32 years and one more contract with Ducati after demonstrating that he is one of the best pilots in history. The questions that run through the paddock about Marc Márquez are: Where is your roof? How many more titles can you get? What motivates you to follow? For now, Valentino Rossi has matched in titles and only has the goal of reaching Giacomo Agostini In victories. The Italian achieved 122 throughout his career in the 60s and 70s. Marc adds 99. In the middle Anda Valentino, with 115. Many compare their return with Federer’s, Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods. «This World Cup has been the biggest challenge of my life. It has been the biggest challenge I have had. Be in glory, go to the bottom and go up again. It is worse because you fall from above and fall with greater inertia. This has helped me to be stronger, more calculator and controller without losing that DNA. We have matched big names. Each of them is Valentino, Sea Agostini in Victorias … I just like Angel Nieto … it’s a pleasure. It is more than I would have imagined at any time and we continue to dream, ”says Márquez.
Jorge Lorenzo, champion in 2010, 2012 and 2015 He has recently explained the difference between Valentino and Marc: «Rossi was with his group there from Tavullia, he had his ranch, they trained Dirttrack, which was somewhat more fun, with 10 or 15 pilots, they made roads and such. I entered the gym a littlebut you already saw that it was not an athlete physically like Marc Márquez or the pilots now ».
The first Spanish history champion in the queen category, Álex Crivillé (1999) He believes that Catalan has rope for a while. «It still has a very distant limit, it is in an idyllic, more mature time and knows what it takes to pilot and win worldwide. Marc has improvement ahead To be able to add more titles, “he explained before highlighting:” This title is very special for everything that has happened. He has managed to manage his future very well. The lesson that Marc has given us is a pass: not throwing the towel to achieve the goal. In his internal jurisdiction he has always known that he was the best and that has given him wings to continue driving ».
Fabio Quartararo, champion in 2021He stressed that “what he has done is spectacular and more seeing where he comes from, he deserves it long after very daring changes.” Pecco Bagnaiahis partner in Ducati and champion in 2022 and 2023 spared no praise: «There are no words to describe his season and the last six years that he has passed. His mental strength is to admire. I would have liked to have fought this season with him. It has always been perfect less in three races ». Jorge Martínchampion until this Sunday, he congratulated him on social networks, since, after falling in Motegi, he returned to Spain to be operated on his clavicle: “Chapeau, there are no words, congratulations champion.”
To these parabienes was added Dani PedrosaLegend with 31 victories and 112 podiums in MotoGP: «He has achieved a milestone in this sport. It is not just another title, but the path you have had to go to get it. Two years ago we talked, the situation was very different for him, he was very worried, he had many doubts and had to make a very difficult decision. I remember that conversation ». “It’s the return to the sport of a more beast athlete in history,” he added Pedro Acostachampion in Moto2 and Moto3.
However, the most emotional was His brother Alex: «Neither those who were next to us really know what he has happened in these four years. His family were accomplices, but he has earned it and has been better than anyone. When people doubted him and I thought it was finishedI had it very clear, which was just a matter of having arms to fight ».
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