Marc Marquez He had the chance to win every MotoGP season he competed in during the 2010s, but was denied one year.
In the year
Marquez They were in charge and they got good results. HondaBut their cycling progress took a turn for the worse after securing the 2014 championship.
He went from winning 10 races in a row to frequent crashes, and overall, completed one tumultuous year. MotoGP. It opened the door to a title fight for all Yamahas.
What would MotoGP do without Marc Marquez?
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Marquez had a ‘special’ talent.And when he made his debut in 2013, he used it to catch his new rivals by surprise.
It took them some time to get used to fighting him and his aggressive nature. A former colleague believes Marquez’s ‘best’ performance came before MotoGP. He was an incredible young rider.
Read more: Marc Marquez has told fans to ‘save their energy’ instead of attacking Valentino Rossi.
Casey Stoner In 2015, Marc Marquez said he paid ‘high’ for Honda’s poor chassis development.
Marquez was easy to work with Casey Stoner. For Honda, who managed to replace one great champion with another at the right time
2015 will be remembered Marquez crash with Valentino Rossi in MalaysiaBut the Honda rider was removed from contention at the time.
the reason? Stoner points to Honda’s growth and He believes they went ‘massively’ in the wrong direction in 2015, which cost Marquez.
“It wasn’t the inertia of the engine, it was the chassis,” he says in Matt Oxley’s biography of Mark The Magnificent. “As soon as you let off the front brake, the front end is gone.
“Marc crashed and crashed in the first class that year, then halfway through they went back to the old (2014) chassis, so they went in the wrong direction.”
Rossi warned that the fans will never forget 2015And for more than 10 years, those opinions have proven to be true. But in retrospect, Marquez should have been in a better position.
Read more: Jorge Lorenzo says Valentino Rossi once saw Marc Marquez as his MotoGP ‘successor’.
How did Marc Marquez’s 2015 season compare to 2014?
A direct comparison of the seasons shows just how much Marquez struggled at the start of his third season in 2015.
In the year In 2014, he won the first 10 races in a row.
But in 2015, he won his second race at COTA before going six races without returning to the top.
When he finally returned to the Sachsenring in race 9, it was no surprise that his two wins so far came at two of his favorite tracks (COTA as well).
At the end of the year, he had more retirements (six) than wins (five), and that’s what cost him the most. Marquez has lost the consistency to be champion again.
