The nickname “Marquez” dominated the World Cup from start to finish: Mark’s superiority was overwhelming on the back of the Ducati, and only his brother Alex could come close in a title fight that ended in ’93 with his ninth crown and runner-up finish in ’73. Before the results started to reveal the favorites to dominate the MotoGP World Championship, they had a key conversation: “If something happens, something will happen, and we will still be brothers.”Honda revealed this Tuesday in Ants.
Recalling the ordeal of injuries he endured leading up to his win again, Mark admitted he felt “at peace” with himself. “I didn’t want the injury to affect my sports career, I wanted it to be a memory. “For it to be memorable, I had to win it,” said the seven-time world champion in the first category.
However, winning a new title did not diminish his ambition one bit: “Until you win this point, you don’t go down. It has fallen now, but in 2026 this point will rise again. I’d be lying to you if I said, “Now that I’ve achieved everything, I’m going to walk around.” “That’s why I hung my monkey,” said Marquez, who admitted that he would fight for a new championship.
“The main competitor is my brother, who we have at home,” he said, laughing. “This year has brought us together more than ever. We trained more than ever, the two of us together, and helped each other more than ever. Because I love him well and he loves me well.”
In this sense, the Ducati rider admitted that “I felt that this year would make it difficult for me,” so he decided to have a conversation with him that would allow them to compete without worry: “Before Argentina, I caught him and said to him: We will fight in the races, if I have to overtake you, I will overtake you; If something happens, something will happen and we will still be brothers and love each other the same way.‘. “We shook hands and that’s it.”
“On the track, you can’t be stoppedfrom ‘I do not announce that he is my brother, and if I fall, what happens, or touch him…’. Let’s go to the limit, if you’re afraid of this race… The race lasts for 45 minutes, but after that life goes on“, he added, marking the first race of the season in Thailand as the moment when he realized that Alex would be his main rival.
“I ran the whole race in Thailand behind him. I spent the last 10 laps thinking about where I should pass so as not to touch him.. We can’t have that thought. “We will talk about it and we will fight, if it happens, it will happen,” the world champion said. “Respect is different from the rest, but within respect, no one makes anyone fall voluntarily. It’s part of the risk of our job,” he concluded.
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