“For Marc, going into a curve slowly means going full speed”

Siblings Marc and Alex Marquez became the star this Wednesday of the Antena 3 network program, ‘El Hormiguero’, where in addition to answering the questions of Pablo Motos with his usual salt shaker and his well-known brothers and lending to the program’s games, they tried something also sports topics now that they are teammates again in Gresini Racing.

They are already tempted to even sit at the table on the set: “In the program I let him play at home because I was in charge of the box,” explained Àlex. “I spent my whole career on the right side of the box and he had it. And the team manager told me ‘your brother doesn’t want to change it,'” said Marc.

“Marc, now it’s Gresini, family, now it’s different,” Alex advised Marc at the beginning of his new stage because he knew him well. “For him to enter a corner slowly is to enter full speed,” he added. “One of my strong points is that I go in very fast and when I was in Moto2 I told him to go in slowly and then you’ll get out as best you can. Normally you trust that you won’t fall and when it It happens I don’t know what happened, I did the same thing as before and I don’t know what happened”

After 11 years at Honda Marc Márquez He still has the vices and they appear instinctively when he looks for the last tenth that separates him from his Ducati references: “A motorcycle can go very well but you have to ride in a certain way , the Honda has style and now is a motorcycle that I need You have to work hard in many parts of the circuit and when you ‘warm up’ you get the vices of the other bike. To lower the rear on the straight you have to deactivate and it is a different way and many times I don’t remember and the bike falls and you get lost around”

“It was a very difficult decision and once you made it, it was the right one. We will see how it turns out. It’s difficult because there are friendly relationships. With some of them 13 years ago, there were lifelong sponsors, but there are the times that are needed you do it to continue your career. sport and it’s time to make this change. There are nerves and doubts but it’s a good decision,” he emphasized.

And he didn’t ask his younger brother for advice to make that decision: “Before doing it I didn’t like the influence and as soon as I decided I started bombarding him with questions. We are brothers, we train together but two completely different driving style.”

Àlex made sure that Marc “allows himself to be advised. Before, when he was more chicken, no, and now he asks me about every decision. He is hotter and I think about it more and I want to see the more cautious side . I’m just one of those people listening.”

Marc’s expectations, according to Àlex, that “if he has the patience and low profile he shows, he can reach a very high level by the end of the year, so don’t get too hot.”

And Àlex’s, according to Marc, “needs to combine in the first seven-eight positions, then at the top.5 which is difficult and you combine yourself as a MotoGP rider. He won a sprint race and podium in a long career and they can’t put expectations to win the world cup. He has to put that base together.”

“I came to awareness, I have fallen a lot and hurt myself a lot and I have to be patient, I haven’t won a race in two years and I can’t face it to win the world championship, get first of points, a podium, the others go,” Marc acknowledges

And he spoke about the right arm: “The arm needs more physio maintenance than the other, and in the tests it worked well. When I do cervical or lumbar exercises, I do it with the arm.”

They also remembered Marc’s 31st birthday, which happened to be a few days before the Qatar test. And Alex has revealed the gift from the team: “He turned 31, we were in Qatar and with the team we gave him some anti-wrinkle creams, which you have to take care of yourself,” he revealed

And this is not the only ‘gift’: “I thought that the new team would do nothing to me and I was almost deaf all day with cream in my ear,” said Marc.