PICS: MotoGP bike swap - Marquez style!
MotoGP champion Marc Marquez leaps from one Repsol Honda to another

These pictures show MotoG🅷P champion Marc Marquez leaping directly from one Repsol Honda to another while practising a bike swap duri✤ng warm-up at Assen.
Bike swaps are allowed to solve the problem of mid-race weather changes, allowing them to chang🐻e from slick to wet tyres for example, but other riders put at least one foot on the ground as the swap machines.
This sequenc🍰e shows exactly how Marquez does it...
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Marquez bike swap (1) |
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Marquez bike swap (2) |
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Marquez bike swap (3) |
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Marquez bike swap (4) |
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Marquez bike swap (5) |
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Marquez bike swap (6) |

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Peter has been in the paddock 🍨for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He 🌟is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.