“Marc Marquez doesn’t give up - so what does he do? Crashes”
Marquez crashed out of fourth-place on the fourth lap🐎 of the Italian MotoGP at Mugello on Sunday.
Th🌸e Repsol Honda rider has failed to finish the most recent four grands prix that he has started, while also missing t🍸hree rounds due to injury.
Sylvain Guintoli said about his fall at Mugello: “As usual, he was over-riding the bike. ✃He was doing everything that he can.
“Just as in Le Ma🐲ns, he was in a🌳 fight for the podium.
“He has to make up tim♕e in the braking zone. He went a bit wide in 🌟the dirty part of the track. He doesn’t understand why he crashed.
“It was basically too much lean in the dirty part of the track. He was on🥂 the outside, the back just falls.
“For Marc and for Honda, there is a lot of work to 💞do. They have to make the package better.
“He’s over-riding -♊ he’s able to, in qualifying, produce mir🐎acles.
“But over a race distance, it’s impossible.
“We know Marc doesn’t give up. So what 💫does he do? Crash💃es.
“🎐Hopefully they can bring tಞhe package closer to the Ducati package, to the better bikes.
“And we can see a more competitive Marc.”
Marquez 🌱is 116 points behind Francesco Bagnaia, who won at Mugello, in the MotoGP standings.
His slim hopes ꦗof winning the champ♏ionship appear to be over, by the sixth round.
The bigger picture is that, after a dreadful 2022, Honda are still no closer to giving the most est🍎eemed rider on the current grid a machine worthy of his talent.
He is contracted to them for next year too, on very lucrative terms, but Marquez is 30-years-old now and must know that the cl꧑ock is ticking on his abi☂lity to become a seven-time MotoGP champion.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1ꦆ.
