• Chronicle: Alex Márquez is already Moto2 World Champion: the little one makes his way

In the gym that the Márquez brothers have mounted on an industrial warehouse in Cervera there is a sacred tradition, ending all the sessions with a game of darts, and until this Sunday the dominator of the game was an unknown outside the walls of the enclosure. If Marc was asked, he proclaimed himself the winner and if Alex was questioned, the same. Only by resorting to third parties and in strict 'off the record', they recognized that the child dominated the major, as in the running races they do in the surroundings of Lleida and in almost all sports in which an engine does not intercede. This Sunday in Sepang, Marc Márquez admitted that maxim as a gift to his brother Alex for having proclaimed champion of the Moto2 World Championship.

Once Alex Marquez crossed the second goal just behind the South African Brad Binder and took the title mathematically, his brother handed him a dart and a giant target. The elder was elated, even more than in the celebration of his MotoGP World Cup a month ago, while the little one barely reacted to the gift. In a cloud, it took a few seconds to understand the reference and, then yes, he spent the whole celebration digging the dart where he could. "When I crossed the finish line and reached Marc, I was exhausted. Now I understand that when he arrives, sometimes he doesn't react much. They congratulate you, you hug, but you don't even know who you are, you're dusty. Something like that is lived more from the outside than from the inside, "accepted Alex Marquez, who started his own path with the Moto2 World Championship, a different one from his brother's.

Because the story of Alex is not a bacchanal of victories and records, it is not a direct ascent to glory, it is a story of mistakes and insistence, of the time each one needs to find himself. He discovered it at Le Mans 2016, in his second season on Moto2. He came from being champion of Spain in 2012 and the Moto3 World Cup in 2014 and there he knew that Moto2 would not be a passing station towards a splendid future in MotoGP if not the place where he would become a professional rider. In Le Mans he fell, as so many other times between 2015 and 2016, he got mad at his team and began a learning process that did not end until Sunday, already in its fifth year in the category. In 2017, with his first three victories, he finished fourth, in 2018 he finished in the same position and this course was that of consecration.

"This World Cup is for all the people who have been by my side. Not only now in good times, but also in bad times. When in 2015 and 2016 it cost me so much, I had people around me that raised me, it made me believe. And this year, above all, I have had a great team. They have given me the confidence I needed. They have given me that affection and that care. And we have achieved it all together ", commented Márquez yesterday after his representative, Emilio Alzamora , One of the few who always believed in him, organized a group made to measure. Like his brother Marc, who has worked with the same mechanics for almost a decade, Alex needed to be clothed and finally this season he succeeded. A new assistant, Rubén Castells , a new team manager, former pilot Joan Olivé and a new mechanic boss, David García , achieved the desired effect.

Despite a shaky start to the year, with a fall included in Jerez, in Le Mans, Mugello, Montmeló, Sachsenring and Brno he added five almost consecutive victories and there he sentenced the contest. He left the Czech Republic with 33 points ahead and since then, he only needed his rivals, Binder, Thomas Luthi, Jorge Navarro and Augusto Fernández to divide the victories without ever threatening him.

The penalty for Álex Márquez was that, when he enjoyed his excellent run, the contracts in MotoGP for the 2020 season were already signed. Although he had some offers and waiting for possible surprises -Will Honda dare to sign him as a substitute for Jorge Lorenzo? - next year he must defend his Moto2 title and then then, by 2021, he can raise the jump to the Queen category "I do not even want to talk about that possibility, because whenever I speak the thing does not end up curdling. You have to live in the moment, in this sport you live in the present. I want to enjoy and keep dreaming," said Álex Márquez who, following his own path, Soon he will be able to challenge his brother Marc. The innocent games of darts will give way to real duels on the asphalt.

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