“My status is different, I have to learn from Bagnaia”

The Spanish MotoGP pilot Marc Márquez (Ducati) confessed this Thursday that he feels “fire” in his “interior” before the start of the Motorcycling World Cup and wants to “fight again for the title” after a positive preseason in his new team where he is clear that his status is “different” and in which he must “learn” from his partner, the Italian Franco Franco Bagnaia, while advising Jorge Martín) Do not hurry to recover and respect your body because he did not and paid it “very expensive.”

“The first race is special, they are different butterflies that you feel in the stomach and that’s fine because in recent years I did not feel that fire inside and in this I know that I am in the right place or I think I am in the right team, on the right motorcycle. I want to fight again for the championship and I will give everything,” said Márquez in the press conference prior to the start of the World Cup in Thailand.

The Cervera acknowledges that he has had “a good winter” and that since he tried the Ducati in Montmeló (Barcelona) he felt “well.” “As the days went by, I was improving more if the sensations and this one of Buriram is, not the best, but a circuit that I like,” he said after having been the fastest in the Thai layout in the second preseason test.

In Apueng (Malaysia), the eight times world champion was also “fast”, but made it clear that “the tests are the tests and the races are the races.” “I think we have done a good job between ‘Pecco’ (Bagnaia) and I, we have a good base, a good balance and I think we have the best motorcycle to fight for the championship,” he admitted.

“My experience tells me that, sometimes, in the race weekend everything can change and it is also true that one of the rivals to beat will be my teammate because in the last four years he has been superbuene. He has finished second, first, first and second and that is something impressive and at the same time I also face a new experience and a new role because, before, when I was in the Repsol Honda, he was the pilot who had more experience and more Position, “added Márquez.

The Catalan pilot considers that his status in the official Ducati team “is different.” “‘Pecco’ has a lot of experience and I have to learn from him and try to see what he is doing in the ‘box’ and try to be fast on the track,” he said.

As for the fight for the championship, Marc Márquez sees “all Ducati pilots in a position to fight for victory” because they start with “a similar base”, that of the motorcycle of 2024. “Of course, in the factory team during the year we will work a lot in different small details in which the engineers have already started working at a line that I think will be better,” he said.

“But we cannot forget Acosta, I would like to tell Martín, but unfortunately he is not here or Bezzecchi. The constancy will be the most important and in a single race there are many pilots who can be fast and who can win a race,” said the Spanish pilot.

He advises Martín to respect his body: “I did not do it in the past”

In this sense, he regretted what happened to the current champion, absent the first two great awards for injury, something that “unfortunately” is part of his sport. “I understand the situation a bit, especially because after crowning you world champion, your motivation is to follow, your degree of confidence is superior you can not see the limit,” he warned.

Therefore, he sent “a message” to the Madrid in which following his “feelings” and “sensations” to recommend patience. “I only said ‘respect your body’. I did not respect it in the past and paid it very expensive. I have just told him that if he lost three, four, five or six races, which is nothing. He is young, he has a lot of talent and a long race ahead, so we wish him a good recovery because in the end the number ‘1’ has to defend him on the track,” he said.

For his part, he feels “prepared to fight for the championship.” “Then, this is superlargo and you don’t know what will hold you. In 2013, I did not feel prepared, so we can say that in 2017, 2019, 2017 and 2020 yes, but then you never know what will hold you. The preseason has been very good, not only here but also in Malasia, that for me it was more important, and to now see how we can adapt to the different circuits,” he said.

He also wants to “share many podiums” with Bagnaia. “We have to paint the championship red at the end of the season. Of course, I will bet on the ’93’ and he for the ’63’, but apart from that we are on MotoGP and everyone is supervid and if you wait first or second on the weekends of racing is that you do not know what MotoGP is going.

Finally, given the possibility of overcoming in the number of victories (90) the late Angel Nieto, Márquez, who adds 88, did not hide that it would be “a great milestone.” “I hope to get this number this year, but, of course, in the past my records were compared with the records that I was beating of great names. It is always a pleasure and a privilege and I feel super -one of being there in that mixture with those big names,” he said.