• Chronicle: Glorious routine of Marc Márquez: victory alone and can already be champion

Only Marc Márquez dances on Alcañiz, a Viennese waltz, a piece of Strauss, and the audience relaxes with his rocking, MotoGP of contemplation, in a scene that forces the question: When is the emotion over?

Four years ago, the World Cup rumbled, trembled, due to rivalries and duels between Valentino Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo and Márquez, but little by little he has been giving himself over to the domain of the youngest of them. From the excitement of those times it has passed to the most absolute sobriety: as so many other times this season, Argentina, Jerez, Le Mans, Montmeló, Sachsenring and Brno, Márquez left yesterday in the first corner of the first round and denied the Uncertainty of victory. In the next race, on October 6 in Thailand, he will be MotoGP champion for the sixth time if he ends up ahead of the only opponent he already has, Andrea Dovizioso . Only two other legends, Mick Doohan in 1997 and Rossi in 2002 and 2005 have reached such a milestone, sentence a title with four margin quotes.

"It has appeared easy but it has not been so much. I was very aware of Austin's experience. I did not care to win with a second of advantage than with 12 as I did in Argentina," said the Spanish remembering his only stumble this year, the fall of Austin "Andrea does not give up, she always resists, she never fails. I want to close the World Cup as soon as possible, but it will not make it easy," he added about a Dovizioso who yesterday finished second in comeback from eleventh place.

The history of the superiority of Márquez in the championship is a story divided equally between foreign mistakes and own successes. From technical details such as the increase in power of the Honda engine or the stagnation of the Yamaha in the same field to personal details, such as the crises of confidence that have gripped Maverick Viñales , everything that has happened since the noisy 2015 until today has favored the Spanish and he has matured to take advantage of it.

For example, Lorenzo helped him decide in 2016 to leave Yamaha, the ideal motorcycle for his style, and start a journey that intensified yesterday with a penultimate position in the race. For example, it helped that Rossi inevitably grew older and turned 40 last February. For example, it helped him that his only rival, Dovizioso, suffered a badge for which every season he is thrown to the ground once or twice. Or for example, it helped that the factory teams - especially Yamaha and Ducati - did not dare to offer contracts to portents like Fabio Quartararo and Jack Miller last year .

All this favored Márquez and while he perfected that pilot that already in 2014, when he chained 10 consecutive victories, seemed perfect. Then, he kept pace and in the final laps, in a group, he imposed himself; now it is imposed from the beginning and then, with surplus advantage, it keeps pace. Last year he understood that this was the best strategy to avoid the instability and hysteria of the final duels and this year he has made it routine. To do this, he has had to practice long runs in training and in the Rufea motocross circuit and, at the same time, has needed to learn a lesson: less is more. This year, in the second race of the calendar, in Argentina he escaped so much, so much, that in the following appointment, in Austin, he fell trying to do the same. Now it demarcates until it reaches five seconds of advantage, as it did yesterday, and with that it already endures until the goal.

After all, the victories are yours the same, nobody disputes that. Because its authority has that effect: each course that passes is larger because each course that passes the rest of the pilots are more incapable. "Right now nobody can beat Marc. I am far, sometimes a little and sometimes a lot. That is the reality and we know it, we have to improve a lot to at least try next year," said Andrea Dovizioso who, as the rest of the grill, observe a 2020 virtually unchanged.

Without changes in the regulations such as those introduced in 2014 or changes in the tire supplier, all riders will remain in their same teams and in the tests performed, no brand has presented important innovations. Ducati always surprises with some change, but for the moment, the future is like the present: Marc Márquez will dance alone on the circuits and the public can only relax with his swing.

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