Italy, hostile land for Marc Márquez
Italy appears to be an especially hostile territory for Marc Márquez. The six-time world champion in MotoGP has only managed to win once at the Mugello circuit, competing in the highest category of the motorcycling world championship.. Since 2014, victory has been eluding him time and again in a Grand Prix that, over the last 21 years, has had two great dominators in the premier class: Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo.. The first treasured seven consecutive wins, while the second managed to take six to his bag, five of them also achieved consecutively.
Since its premiere, in 1991, Honda and Yamaha stood out as the great dominators. As of 2017, however, despite a brief hiatus with the victory of the tuning fork brand in 2021 with Fabio Quartararo on the handlebars, Ducati has seriously taken over from them. Right now, this Italian brand is the great dominator of a world championship in which it costs horrors to try to shade them. His machines are the best and, therefore, it is not surprising that Lorenzo came to predict that Marc will take the controls of one of them in the not too distant future.. Something to which, for now, the brand's own CEO, Claudio Domenicali, has closed the doors with a terribly forceful statement.
«Marc Márquez has an extraordinary talent, he doesn't have to prove anything, he is doing very well, but Ducati draws its strength from the work with its pilots, with a family spirit. The results are proving us right and we will continue like this”, Domenicali assured a few days ago before the microphones of Sky Sport Italia. For now, two of its pilots, Pecco Bagnaia, current world champion and current leader of the World Cup, and Marco Bezzecchi, with 106 and 102 points, respectively, are fighting to win this year's title, with the Spanish Jorge Martín, who also competes with one of his mounts, located in third place, 15 points behind the second classified.
Bagnaia, winner of a somewhat bumpy sprint race, will start this Sunday from pole position at Mugello, with Marc Márquez in second place on the grid and his brother Álex in third. That Italy largely brings bad vibes to the older Márquez was also demonstrated by the fact that he had a couple of run-ins with both the current World Cup leader and his compatriot Maverick Viñales throughout this weekend.. In both cases, due to his way of looking for the slipstream to try to improve the options of his Honda. Something that the Italian, in fact, ostensibly made him ugly from his mount this Saturday in training when he felt harmed when he was thrown.
«I have not understood his anger, because I have not hindered him. In fact, my intention in turn one was to move away, because he was on a fast lap, so that he could continue his lap, but he decided to get angry and, surely, if he had thrown that lap I would not have followed him, because I was coming out of the box. But, in the end, his anger has helped me to catch the slipstream and be in that first line, “confessed Marc Márquez after training. With his second place on the grid, he will surely fight to leave Italy with a good feeling. In your hands is the option to achieve it. Again, in openly hostile territory.