Alex Marquez He has recovered his smile. Gone is his very difficult stage at Honda. Now in ducati the sensations are very different. He himself admits that there came a time when “I hated what I did”: “He mentally pushed me to the limit last year…”.
“I spent three weeks without a motorcycle because it was hard for me, mentally I was destroyed. The biggest difference with Repsol and the LCR was that in Cecchinello’s team (the director) I felt that I was only part of Honda. We worked a lot with him and it was as if Honda wouldn’t be interested,” he said on the ‘A Tutto Gas’ podcast.
That “nightmare” also had to do with his brother marc: “Everyone said that Marc Márquez had put me in Honda. At that time the Moto2 World Championship didn’t count, it was just ‘brother of’. It’s difficult to win a championship, it’s not all a matter of luck, in the end you have to work “.
Now everything has changed. He celebrates having reached Ducati: “With Ducati I have found a nice relationship in which they always have you in consideration, they ask you to help them. This is something very nice for the driver to feel important.”
“At Ducati I don’t feel alone in the box and this is essential, it’s happened to me before and it’s not a very pleasant feeling,” says the Cervera rider.
When he was still riding for Honda, the brand announced the signing of Pol Espargaro. Something that affected him and did not allow him to demonstrate his full potential. He has now left those ghosts behind and is a completely new rider at Ducati. And who knows where he can go if they give him the trust he deserves.
