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Márquez: "When I fight for a title I play the cards differently"

Only 17 points separate the top three finishers in the 2022 MotoGP World Championship overall when there are only five races left to finish the season, a situation that in the past would have generated tons of extra tension and that, instead, this year is being managed , between Fabio Quartararo, Pecco Bagnaia and Aleix Espargaró, like a birthday party in a playground.

Marc Márquez admitted, this Friday in Motegi, that if he were in that fight, as he has been many times until his injury in 2020, “I would play the cards differently”.

“It reminds me a bit of my fight with Andrea Dovizioso, I got along well, with smiles, but the tension was noticeable. The ‘buenrollismo’ that exists now is because we have not yet experienced a real melee, last lap. Yes it happened The one in the Netherlands between Aleix Espargaró and Fabio Quartararo, but as (Aleix) came back, the situation was camouflaged a bit, but they will know. When I am in that situation I play the cards differently, “confessed the Honda man.

Marc has seen himself in countless battles like that, especially with Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo, and management had nothing to do with it.

“The best mental warfare, as Doohan said, is on the track, if you crush them there they can dress as they want, and in the end you have them crushed. I am now far from that level for me, but as I see it, it is difficult to understand what cards each one is playing. I see Pecco very convinced, Fabio knows that they come from behind and it will be difficult, but he is getting more than he has, and Aleix is the one who has no pressure, the problem is welcome, he takes all the pressure off because he is already doing well for being where he is,” he settled the issue.

As it happened in Aragón, Márquez’s appearance before the media suffered a considerable one that triggered some alarms due to the physical state of the runner, unfounded alarms.

“It’s normal, it already happened in Aragon and I apologize, the (technical) meeting has been a bit long because before I had to apply the ice, because if I waited until the end I would have done it after more than an hour, and it is more effective to do it just when you finish training, that’s why we’ve been late,” he apologized.

Despite the fact that the Honda man stopped the small threat of alarm, he did admit that the discomfort, this time, had been more intense.

“In this circuit I have already noticed that the discomfort in the shoulder is more, and when you start to notice it you have to stop it before it gets worse”, he added.

At the end of the day, Márquez managed to get his head into the top six riding the soft rubber and attacking the clock in the final part of the session.

“I didn’t expect this time, I liked it because I haven’t done it alone for a long time, without tailgating, and if I have to do it next time, I’ll do it, shameless nobody beats me, but I’ve gone out, I’ve felt good, I’ve I went alone all the training and I took advantage of it. The truth is that I felt much better than expected, especially at the level of driving. Then I know that I’m far from doing consecutive laps there. But the important thing now is that in batches of four or five laps I can drive well, as I want, the other has to come”.

The weather forecast is that it will rain on Saturday and on Sunday the race will be in dry conditions, which will reduce the time to prepare for the race and offer opportunities to those who, like Marc, are able to take advantage of complicated situations.

“I don’t know what will happen, because we have seen today that everyone has gone out and from the beginning they have gone fast. What can benefit me is if it rains on Saturday, as they say, because if it is in the water you don’t physically press so hard. Today I went all out from the beginning, because tomorrow they say it will rain one hundred percent for sure. rhythm,” he concluded.

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