Marc Marquez He won again 1,042 days later, but warns that Sunday is still ahead: “I have to finish the job.” The Lleida man acknowledged that Victory “tastes good, but it tastes better on Sunday”. I am always ambitious and realistic at all times and yes, we won. The first thing I said to the team was “it’s just a sprint, it’s just a Saturday”, but their response was overwhelming and they are right. “You start with something.”
“You have to burn scenes, moments… and being able to take pole position in the dry with the Ducati, sprinting at the front of all the laps, I had never done that before in a sprint. One more step in this evolution and we will see if tomorrow we can finish the job,” added the Spaniard. As for whether he hoped to win with this superiority, Marc Márquez stressed: “I expected Martín to be the two who, together with Pecco, would make things difficult for me. Especially because Martín crashed in qualifying and that hurt him, but before qualifying he was already second and he was going fast. And Pecco, something had to happen to him in the sprint. Tomorrow it will be the same trend. We will have to manage the tires well, but Martin and Pecco, with more grip on the track, will get a little closer“.
His brother was very happy with his victory, but said he had already won a sprint than the winner of the Aragon sprint: “Well yes. In the water. Oh, no, no, sorry, he won in Malaysia. Well, he screwed me over. But hey, he also did very well finishing fourth,” he said with a laugh.
He also spoke about his options to fight for the title. He was eliminated a few races ago, but this victory raises questions again. “The same thing happened in Austria and Silverstone. A Grand Prix, except under special conditions, cannot serve as a reference. The goal remains the same. I hope that if instead of finishing at 75 I can finish at 50, I will try. It is not that now the title is no longer… The more we finish, the more prepared we will be for next year.. I would like to be in Pecco’s position, where you go fast in every race and you suffer one. It seems that we are doing very well here. “We will have to confirm it in Misano and in the next races.”
How long has it been since you had the feeling of a weekend like this where everything goes “easy”? : “This year there have been flashes. That’s why I’m calm, and if something happens tomorrow, the world won’t end. I’m calm every time I notice flashes. It’s one thing that you see this moment very far away, but this year I’ve felt training, laps, races, moments of racing that I found the fastest and even the fastest on the track… and that’s already a good sign. That’s why there is no obsession tomorrow to win or win. I am the first one who can be put under pressure and I have to finish the job.. But if that doesn’t happen, the world won’t stop and next week there will be another race, so we will continue to fight.
You’re always the one who performs these types of songs best, they told him: “The same thing happens in training at home. When we arrive at a new circuit, I immediately know the difference, then I stay there and my brother and all the others arrive. It’s one of the strong points of my driving, I like to take this riskI am also one of those who falls the most. But it is true that when there are these conditions that skid a little more, one of the points that I suffer the most this year is this push of the front wheel at the entrance of the bend, that is where I had all the falls and when there are few, I do not have this grip. “This allows me to drive more fluidly and I interpret it much better.”
Marc Marquez assured that winning in Spain and close to home is quite special because Motorland has always been good at it: “It’s special everywhere, but to do it in Spain, at Motorland, near Lérida, where I have a corner, is much more. Let’s see if tomorrow we can finish it up.”
Regarding what Acosta said about having really big balls to overcome what you’ve been through and whether he felt liberated with this victory, Marc Márquez responded: “I feel liberated this year, more than this victory or not, I feel liberated this year because of what happenedI kept insisting… I said it then and I say it again now, I put things on the table when I decided to make the change. I took the plunge, I decided to opt for the best bike to see where my potential really was. We saw that little by little I am getting closer, not enough yet, but I will continue to work because I do not want to say goodbye to my sports career in 4.5, 2 or 10 years, we do not know, with doubts in my mind what if I had done this or that. You are at a stage in your sports career where you have to focus only on sports and interests to get the best results.
Finally, as to whether he understands that the rest should not exclude you from the fight for the title, he commented: “I understand it because a championship is very long, and It’s just as well that rivals are taking you into consideration.but we have to be realistic. “I would like to say yes, but this year is very, very complicated.”
