• Chronicle.Alex Rins spoils the party of the sixth World of Marc Márquez

Those around Álex Rins confirm the impression he offers in 20 minutes of talk: that he is above all a carefree guy. His father Rafa still remembers when the very day of his debut at the World Cup, in Qatar in 2012, the boy lost his passport and had to mobilize the Spanish embassy in Doha so he could return home. Your ability to misplace things, such as your passport or keys, is only comparable with your puppy in worrying matters. Why don't young pilots like you or Maverick Viñales have so much public? "I do not know, seriously". Do you think the hobby has gone down with the passage to pay-TV? "I don't know, I haven't thought about that." What do you think of the results of the last elections in Spain? "I did not see anything. I don't have time to keep up ». Tranquility is the quality that best defines Rins and, contrary to what it might seem in a sport at 300 km / h, there is no better attitude.

Since Marc Márquez promoted MotoGP in 2013 as a cyclone, the championship is looking for a rival to discuss him and Rins is already the best placed for the future. In Suzuki - where he has a contract until 2021 - he has it complicated by the lack of top speed of the motorcycle, but as soon as the market opens next spring Yamaha or Ducati should put him in a position to fight for the title. With its height (1.76 meters), its elegant piloting and its extreme calm, its two victories this season have raised its prestige and launched it.

How not to trust someone capable of waiting for the party of the sixth title of Márquez. This Sunday at Silverstone, Fabio Quartararo took Andrea Dovizioso ahead in the first corner of the first round and the World Cup, already decided, would have sunk again in monotony had it not been for Rins. As in his six previous victories this year -Argentina, Jerez, Le Mans, Montmeló, Sachsenring and Brno-, Márquez tried to escape with a demarrage in the first laps, but his future opponent followed him and made him dizzy with insight. With nothing to lose, while the Yamaha of Maverick Viñales and Valentino Rossi approached , Rins refused to take the lead and, at the last moment, chas! When Márquez himself did not expect it, when he left the last corner on the last lap, he went inside and took the victory for 13 thousandths.

"I have beaten two legends this year"

"I just do not believe it. I am very happy because I have already beaten two legends this year, Rossi in Texas and Marquez here. It came from two zeros and now I'm back there, step by step. During the race, I preferred not to get on my head and teach him my tricks, behind I was quite confident. I knew that in the last section of the circuit, Marquez was a churro, sincerely, but I had to stick to it and try it at the end, ”he said after the celebration when he confirmed his prodigious cachaza. With two laps to go, he thought the race was over and attacked Marquez as if he were living in it: "I thought it was over." Only when he crossed the finish line and found that the current champion continued to accelerate, he understood that no, that he still had one last turn to the circuit.

What a silly mistake! What an anecdote! How funny! But in its day the same, identical fault, already earned him a Moto3 title. In his second season in the World Cup, when he was fighting in the general classification, Rins celebrated the victory in Brno when there was still a lap of competition and he was so late with his failure that he could only finish fourth. In full run of podiums - in 11 races he only failed that day - that position hurt him to the extreme: if he had won he would have been champion in front of Maverick Viñales. That weak point, the lack of a championship, still hurts him. From the Barcelona neighborhood of Prosperidad and formed of the Monlau school under the guidelines of Emilio Alzamora , neither in Moto3 nor in Moto2 he managed to be the best and only for that reason he jumped to MotoGP with modest perspectives. Now you have shown what you can do, now the future is yours.

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