Featured Within the December 2023 difficulty of Roadracing World:
Not often has one rider shone so brightly on one motorbike for thus lengthy: 11 seasons, successful six Moto GP World Championships and 59 Grand Prix races. Solely Giacomo Agostini and Mick Doohan come shut: In the past rode MV Agusta 500s for 9 years, taking seven world titles and 64 race wins. Doohan rode Honda NSR500s for 10 years, scoring 5 titles and 54 Grand Prix victories.
What made Márquez’s glory years so particular was the energy of his rivals—the MotoGP grid of current years has been a lot stronger than the 500c grid within the Sixties, Seventies, and Nineteen Nineties—and particularly how he modified the artwork of driving a GP bike: Tucking the entrance at each different nook and, when he surpassed the restrict, avoiding catastrophe by utilizing his elbows as outriggers.
It didn’t all the time work, after all. Throughout these 11 years aboard Honda’s quick and fiery RC213V he had 196 crashes throughout MotoGP weekends. Think about if HRC printed the whole crash injury invoice!
“Marc Marquez And Honda: A Magician’s Greatest And Worst Of Instances,” by MotoGP Editor Mat Oxley
The Marc Márquez/Honda story was one thing particular, one in every of Moto GP’s all-time best relationships. So what had been the highs and the lows of their 11 years collectively? Mat Oxley particulars the numerous milestones within the newest difficulty of Roadracing World!
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