Phillip Island.- Alex Rins won this Sunday in a close duel with Marc Márquez that was decided on the same finish line; a give and take that evoked the one they both had three seasons ago at Silverstone , and that also fell on the #42 side.
For Rins, the victory was a liberation, and a sign of hope for all the members of Suzuki , which at the end of the course will close its MotoGP division. The #93, meanwhile, celebrated having been able to resist in the front group throughout the test, with no more pain in his arm than the understandable fatigue in the last laps, which, however, did not prevent him from looking for a thousand and one ways to try to overtake the Suzuki.
After the frightening of the Hamamatsu brand, Rins found a place at Honda for 2023, as did Joan Mir, his current neighbor in the workshop of the big S team. The winner in Australia will do so in the LCR structure, as a replacement by Alex Márquez , while the Spaniard will replace Pol Espargaró in the garage of the Repsol-sponsored team, and with the multi-champion as his partner.
Asked after Sunday’s test what advice he would give Rins to ease his adaptation to the RC213V, Márquez preferred to be honest rather than politically correct.
“If I said that I wish Alex the best with Honda, I would be lying. It is clear that he has great potential, because he is winning races. But I am not going to give him any advice, because he will be just another rival,” replied the man from Cervera , who Phillip Island signed its hundredth podium in the category of heavy bikes.
The Catalan is in the process of developing next year’s Honda, and precisely for this reason, he divided this last weekend into two blocks: until Saturday afternoon he worked on the key to the future. From the fourth free trial and the timed one, in the race on Sunday. When the current Suzuki pair joins the Honda, the general lines of the 2023 prototype will be quite defined, and it is understood that their contribution will be considerably less than that of the project’s flagship. “Mir is a world champion and Rins is someone who wins races. With them you will see the level of the bike”, warns Márquez.
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