Alex Marquez’s vital role in saving Marc Marquez: “Lots of races, only one life"
Marc was flung into the air in a horrible highside during the warm-up for the Indonesian MotoGP, the latest in a series of physical blows he had suඣstained in a two-year period.
His new Amazon Prime Video documentary ‘Marc Marquez: AဣLL IN’ reveals how he planned to defy logic by starting the race shortly after the worst highside of his career, until his brother🎃 intervened.
“When I got back to the track I wasn’t seeing double yet,” Marc said in the d🅷ocumentary. “I wanted to race. My brother said: ‘Do not race, man’.”
Marc had already suffered with diplopia, a double-vision issue, as well as arm injuries. The highside in the Mandalika warm-up gave him ꦐa concussion, the hospital said at the time.
LCR Honda rider Alex told the documentary: “I saw where he had hit his head. I said: ‘This ཧgives me a bওad feeling’. After the warm-up I assumed he wouldn’t race.
“I was in his office and I r𒈔emember that [crew chief Santi Hernandez] came in - ‘everything is readജy’, because that’s his job.
“But in that moment I thought ‘no’. I stood up to him. I said: ‘Look, Marc doesn♉’t race’. There 🍎are a lot of races but only one life. You’d be making a mistake today.
“It seemed like he didn’t want to race but he needed somebody to calm him down anﷺd say ‘you don’t have to rac🌳e’.”
Repsol Honda rider Marc said about his brother: “ꦿHe said: ‘You can’t go out there, you took a bash out there, itꦡ is unfeasible’.
“The diplopia got worse and I said: ‘okay I wo𓂃n’t race’. I had a fall, a hard one, double vision. But it still wasn’t as bad as the other falls.”
The Amazon Prime Video documentary goes ♌on toᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ chart Marc's career-threatening arm surgery last summer and his subsequent comeback.
James was a sports journalist at S♎ky Sports for a deca🅠de covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
