• MotoGP.Marc Márquez gets the only pole he lacked in MotoGP

They were two sudden decisions, stubborn and, at the same time, opposed. The Kalex of the Marc VDS team decreed that it was enough, that it could not be risked on a very wet Motegi circuit and swayed to crash on the ground and its pilot, Álex Márquez , replied that there was still room for the impossible, that they could continue the circus balances and that of the motorcycle never, never got off. It was a show. In the Motorcycle World Championship, miracles are called 'saved' and few, very few, are remembered as the one that the little one of the Marquez played in the third training session of the Japanese Grand Prix.

Veterans remember that Randy Mamola , runner-up of 500cc four times during the 80s, did something similar in Misano 1985 and that is why these types of maneuvers are called 'mamoladas'. More recent is the one that starred Niklas Ajo , Moto3 rider, in Assen 2015, but none of them were wet.

This Saturday, after the rain, Álex Márquez clung to the handlebars of a Kalex that wanted to expel him violently and already out of it, with both feet on the asphalt, he was able to stop it on the side of the track and return to Upload to continue the training session. "When I opened gas I saw that it was very crossed and that the motorcycle was leaving me. I have thought: 'There, I am leaving.' But when I opened my eyes again I was next to the motorcycle, I have stood and there already said: 'Stop where I can.' It has been complicated, but it has been well, recorded from all angles, in 'slow motion'. "

Competition with his brother

Álex Márquez was reminded of his brother Marc's ability to avoid falls and asked if he had already overcome him. The current Moto2 World leader replied humbly: "Well, I don't know. When you lose the front wheel you have to have the ability. Here the virgin goes down and keeps you on the bike."

His brother, on the other hand, at the end of the qualifying session in which he obtained his first pole in Motegi, did accept that there was nothing to do. "It has been incredible. I do something ... It has surpassed me, it has surpassed me. I have seen it repeated 50 times and I never get tired of seeing it. These things happen once in a lifetime, but it has remained on the motorcycle and He has also saved a possible injury in those conditions. I would like to have seen his panic face there under the helmet. "

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