“I am excited to see Alex with me on the podium in MotoGP”

The Spanish MotoGP pilot Marc Márquez (Ducati), the first World Cup leader after his two victories at the opening Grand Prix of Thailand, has assured that he feels “confident and calm” at this start of the season, and has confessed his emotion for being able to get on the podium with his brother Alex, second this Sunday.

“I am supercontent to start this new stage, we will try to savor it well. I am excited to see that we are first and second with Alex on MotoGP; two brothers had never done it. We have worked all the winter and I do not know if we will repeat it, but surely I can do.

In this sense, he agreed especially to his family, “most importantly”, and he felt happy that his brother Alex could accompany him on the podium. “He has earned it. I would not get excited if I were not on the podium, but I know everything he has worked. Be able to share, even if it is only a normal weekend, without rain or falls … They were all except the world champion, Jorge Martín,” he said. “Surely everyone is very happy, especially my grandparents, my grandfather especially that I followed it, will be seeing it from heaven,” he added.

In another order of things, Cervera recalled that it was in Buriram where he had been last leader until this weekend. “My last World Cup celebrated it here in Thailand, and from there it was a hell. Last year I was one that I enjoyed a lot and this year I feel speed. I feel confident and calm. If I cannot be champion this year, I will be another, that they take it off. I dance it. I feel with that tranquility and that accompanies that,” he said.

Finally, he explained why he was surpassed by his brother Alex (Ducati) on the seventh lap. “I have seen that the front pressure did not go down during the turns. I wanted to adjust a little more and I have seen that the pressure did not enter and said ‘they will penalize me’. I had three laps of margin. When I have seen that I had already fulfilled all the laps, I have attacked. I have opened the hole, I have found myself very well and has allowed me to be able to save the situation,” he revealed.