2021 has been a critical year for Marc Márquez, and two weeks before starting a new course in which he has everything ahead of him, #93 confessed the emotional consequences of the fateful campaign he has suffered.
Injuries, crashes and a long rehabilitation process turned a promising season into a drag for the Spanish rider. In search of an emotionally safe environment, Marc made the decision to isolate himself with his family, unconditional support in the arduous process after an injury.
“I needed to isolate myself, be with my family. Escape a little from everything, because that helps you not lose sight of the goal you want and not think about other unnecessary things,” Marc confessed in an exclusive interview with DAZN.
“You don’t feel like reading that you’re never going to run again. I don’t feel like reading it. I’m a realist, I know it can happen, but I don’t feel like reading it. So I don’t go in to read those things.”
The Repsol Honda Team rider has won the battle against his second episode of diplopia, and, using a positive reading, he returns to the MotoGP paddock emotionally stronger and hungry for victory.
“I’ve had a difficult winter, one more. The intrigue makes you anxious, you lose weight and gain exhaustion. I didn’t train, but I was exhausted.”
“The experience I gained at that time I have used now and it has served me a lot. There is one body, there are many races. If you take care of the body, there will be races. If you don’t take care of the body, there will be no races. This is what has been calmer this time”.
The second half of the season and the victory at the Sachsenring gradually restored hope to Marc Márquez.
“I need to feel what I felt in the last races of 2021. Starting from Austria, after the summer break I suffered, but I was there.”
“I know that right now, I’m not ready to fight for the victory or even for the podium. But when you start training, and you see that everything is returning to normal, that gives you a mental relaxation.”
With a whole year ahead of him, the rider from Cervera embarks on his path towards regularity and the feeling of being able to give 100% on the asphalt, without neglecting the dream he shares with his team: the fight for the title.
“A year is very long, it’s 21 races. We’ll see, but the title is one of the things dreamed of, important, and this year I start with that mentality”, concluded Marc.
