After the sprint race on Saturday in Argentina, I wrote about how Marc Márquez' victories are the natural consequence of putting the best rider on the best bike. On Sunday, he rather proved my point, even though brother Alex made it considerably tougher for him than he had in Thailand. Tougher or not, the outcome was the same: Marc Márquez took another win with a comfortable margin, making it a clean sweep of the first two races. At both Buriram and Termas de Rio Hondo, the Ducati Lenovo rider took pole, sprint win, GP win, and a new lap record.
Once again, Márquez dropped behind his brother Alex after a few laps, before passing him again at the end. But this time, it wasn't because of tire pressure or a sign of control. At the start of lap 4, Marc made a mistake and outbraked himself going into Turn 1, running wide and allowing Alex through. And then the elder Márquez brother found himself stuck behind the younger, incapable of getting past again. Until 5 laps to the end.
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Not falling cause he doesn’t need to find the limit
The last short paragraph! Another thing I’d forgotten a bit about MM93 (along with how much he can dominant a season). His willingness -at least in past times- to crash on Friday n Saturday to work out where the no go lines were for Sunday. Whether it’s the much easier bike to ride fast…..or the circumspection delivered by age n injuries….it seems he longer wants or needs to do that!! Yet he still had two perfect weekends. Poles, wins, record lap times. Still winning n not needing to crash in practice to do it. Concerning times indeed for anyone who would turn up their nose at a 9th GP to title to MM93
So true
Statistics do not lie.
However, it’s ‘racing’ between riders that I am looking for and the Ducati dominance is not promising much in that regard. Fabio, Fabio, wherefore art thou? Acosta to Zarco do not have what I’m hoping for at present. Fingers crossed.
Marc has a plan
Marc has a plan:
Tie Rossi’s 9 championship title record this year.
Beat it next year.
Not looking good for the competition. Pecco will have a mountain to climb after COTA.
How soon can we get Pedro on a Ducati? 2026 the earliest or is mid season 2025 a pipe dream?