If nothing comes unexpectedly, Marc Márquez will leave Misano this weekend with the first championship point in his pocket. He only needs to add three points more than his brother, in a circuit where he has won five times, to land at the end of September in Japan with everything face to lift his ninth World Cup crown, the seventh on MotoGP and the first since 2019. It is a matter of weeks that the pilot of Cervera, at 32, closes a campaign of reconquest fully fulfilled to the back of the Red Ducati of the official team of the official team of the Italian team.
The machine that accumulates six consecutive builders championships, an unpublished fact in the current Era of MotoGP, released in 2002, has been one of the indispensable elements, which came from a five -year lustro marked first by the injuries and, later, by a deep sports crisis with Honda, the factory where he conquered his six titles in the queen category. In his worst sporting moment, he decided to give up everything with the idea of winning the favor of the Italians, who agreed to receive him not without a certain suspense.
The Burgo Panigale mandamases are very proud to have given that first chance to 93, which he saw on the motorcycle that marks the passage on the grill his last chance to recover his passion for motorcycling, physically and chemically, desperately, desperate, in his last times with the Japanese. “, This great human and sports history would not be telling it,” says one of the prominent members of the factory to El País. That was the first step that followed the final bet of the brand, when they put the red carpet for this course, in which Márquez accumulates 10 victories on Sunday and another 14 on Saturday at 15 stops.
“Ducati is one of the main actors in this story. Last year’s decision,” says Mauro Grassilli, sports and commercial director of Ducati Cors. There they lost the Madrid, who was crowned champion in the last test of the calendar and took the number one to the competitor Aprilia. “If we chose him it is because we firmly believed that he was one of the two best grid pilots with Pecco,” says Gigi Dall’igna, general director of the factory. “What we saw in the first part of last year was important, but so was Marc’s attitude, since he rejected a lot of money, his family in the circuits, to come with us and improve his performance, rebuild his trust,” adds the category guru.
In Ducati they were very clear what kind of pilot had signed, and that is that every year of suffering they did not cancel the enormous talent and contrasted palmarés of the eight times world champion. “We cannot say that we are surprised by his domain. At first it was impressive. We knew it was great, of course, but in all the beginnings things cost. With new equipment, motorcycle and work methodology, it did not have to be so simple,” says Grassilli. In a matter of months ,.
“I think we form a very good couple,” says Dall’igna, without getting wet on whether we are facing the most dominant binomial in history, the best pilot above the best motorcycle. “Without a doubt, what I can say is that I had never worked with a pilot capable of winning so many consecutive races in the past,” he adds with a smile. “Right now, it is difficult to imagine a future without Marc, because it is already part of the family. His results show that he is a fantastic athlete and that Ducati has a magnificent motorcycle, so he is the perfect ambassador to us. We are very lucky to have him,” concludes Grassilli.
