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 serไies of physical blows he had sust🅠ained in a two-year period.
His new Amazo💜n Prime Video documentary ‘Marc Marquez: ALL IN’ reveals how he planned to defy logic by starting the race shortl🌌y after the worst highside of his career, until his brother intervened.
“When I got back to the track I wasn’t seeinℱg double yet,🅷” Marc said in the documentary. “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 a 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 gives me a bad feeling’. After the warm-up I assumed he wouldn’t race.
“I was in his office and I rememb𒅌er that [crew chief Santi Hernandez] came in - ‘everything is re🌱ady’, 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 b💦ut only one liꦐfe. You’d be making a mistake today.
“It seemed like he didn’t want to race but he needed somebody to calm him down and say ‘you do♛n’t have to race’.”
Repsol Honda rider Marc said about his brother: “He said: 𓄧‘You can’t go out there, you took ൲a bash out there, it is unfeasible’.
“The diplopia got worse and I said: ‘okay I won’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 to chart Marc's career-threatening arm 🦩surgery last summer and his subsequent comeback.

James was a sports journalist at S�🌼�ky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.