Livio Suppo saw the likes of Casey Stoner and Marc Marquez win MotoGP riders’ titles when he coached the factory Ducati and Honda teams in the 2000s and 2010s.
He supervised the works Ducati From 2003 to 2009, the Borgo Panigale team went from winning the occasional Grand Prix to securing the Riders’ Championship. Stoner In the year In 2007, Stoner beat Honda’s Dani Pedrosa by 125 points for Ducati’s first premier class title.
Honda He left Ducati and invested in Suppo in 2010, initially as marketing and communications director before being named team principal in 2013. Marquez He made his MotoGP debut in 2013 and took the first title from the current seven MotoGP riders.
Marquez won four MotoGP titles before Suppo left Honda at the end of 2017, with Jorge Lorenzo in 2015 the only rider to deny him the crown during that time. Marquez won 35 Grands Prix out of 90 races under Supo, while Stoner won 20 out of 49 under Supo.
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Livio Suppo thinks Casey Stoner had more pure talent than Marc Marquez
Stoner sees some similarities between himself and MarquezIt’s second-to-none, which the Australian believes is second-to-none when it comes to response and has a “wonderful” feel to the front end. Suppo prefers Marquez over any other rider he has worked with for the Dream Team.
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Suppo believes Marquez’s mindset, focus, attitude, character and hunger are “unbeatable”, making the Spaniard the “most complete” rider the one-time Suzuki MotoGP boss has worked with. But when it comes to pure talent, Stoner is arguably better than Marquez.
“Of course Mark,” Suppo told him Fan page. “Of all the riders I’ve worked with, he’s definitely the most complete.
“Casey is at the same skill level, if not better, Marquez’s mindset, focus, attitude, character and hunger are unbeatable. It’s no coincidence that Casey retired at 27.”
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Suppo is not the only one who has worked with Stoner and Marquez in MotoGP to believe that the former is superior in certain areas. As Suppo, Ducati team boss David Tardozzi feels Stoner has more “natural pace” than Marquez. And every other rider worked together.
In the year Stoner and Marquez have never raced on the same circuit since the former retired at the end of the 2012 season and the latter was vacated by Honda on the bike he took. When were they closest to sharing a circuit? Honda and Suppo explored placing Marquez in a satellite team for 2012.
Marquez finally stayed in Moto2 in 2012 and won the title as Honda’s plans to move him to MotoGP fell through after more than four months sidelined by diplopia. In the year In 2011, he suffered from double vision after a huge climb at Sepang.
