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"I like to keep my emotions inside, I don't express much what I feel, but I entered the garage and I collapsed because ...", and suddenly
Marc Márquez
, six times MotoGP champion, broke in front of the DAZN microphone He was crying for the second time in the same day, demanding "two minutes" to compose himself, simply because he had finished a race. The 205 times that before in his life he had crossed the checkered flag he did not give it any importance, he only celebrated when he played and cursed when he did not, but this time only finishing was a victory. After nine months out due to his right humerus injury, Márquez returned to the World Cup in Portimao with a seventh place and a concatenation of feelings that he concentrated in one: "relief."
"Running a whole race, completing 25 laps, was the biggest step in recovery. I have felt relief to be riding a motorcycle again. I have felt relief to feel like a rider again. I have not ridden as I wanted, but after all I am super happy, "Márquez acknowledged, who lived two moments of pure emotion. The second was before in the mixed zone, before the questions of DAZN. The first had been when he finished the test, arrived at his box and received the ovation of his team, including the Honda executives who had come from Japan on purpose. Then Márquez gave himself up in his chair, released all the frustration he had experienced and, somehow, started from scratch. With 16 races ahead, that is, almost the entire championship, his options for the title are many, although before appearing in that dispute he will still have to improve his physique.
In Portimao this Sunday it was clear that his rehabilitation still needs several races to be complete. "I have done very well [he was fourth], but afterwards they have abused me like when I played football with the elders in the schoolyard. In the middle of the race, when I found my position, I found my rhythm and in the end I just I finished. In the last laps I went where the bike was taking me ", summarized the Spaniard who despite the hardships managed to be the best Honda rider ahead of his brother Álex, eighth, and Takaaki Nakagami, tenth. His position in the race favored him, as he lost the front group, but no one from behind caught him: for many laps he was alone, a blessing.
"I have not felt pain. I have noticed that I lacked a lot of strength, but I have not felt pain," commented Márquez in a diagnosis that will mark the way forward. In the next few days he will have a new review with the doctors who operated on him at the Ruber International Hospital in Madrid,
Samuel Antuña
and
Ignacio Roger de Oña,
and then he will return to work in Cervera with his physiotherapist,
Carlos J. García
. The next race, in two weeks at Jerez, the circuit where he was seriously injured, will be difficult psychologically, but the euphoria of these days in Portugal will help him cope with the bad memories. "Everything has gone better than expected," concluded the six-time MotoGP champion who, from now on, already knows who is the rival to overcome if he wants to win again:
Fabio Quartararo
.
Last season, with Márquez himself absent, no rider was able to stand out and the success went to
Joan Mir
because of his reliability. This year is different. After his victory in Qatar, the Frenchman chained a second victory in Portimao and did so with an improper government of these times in the category. With four seconds of advantage he finished and that his last laps were honorable: if there had been an audience, he would have dedicated himself to saying hello. A driver,
Álex Rins
, dared to follow him and ended up against the asphalt in the effort. With another fall, that of the until now leader of the World Cup,
Johann Zarco
, Quartararo placed himself at the top in the classification and opened a pleasant distance: the second is now
Francesco Bagnaia
, with 15 points less than him.
Márquez is 51 points behind, but the important thing this Sunday was not that.
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