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ALL NEGATIVE THINGS, PRESSURE AND OBSTACLES ARE A CHANCE TO GROW

DON'T COUNT DAYS, MAKE DAYS COUNT

In life you have different types of people.

In life there shouldn't be good guys and bad guys.

I consider myself a normal person.

As a rider, on the track, I'm an asshole.

See? He said it all.

Here we go! Oh, they touch!

Marc Márquez on Lorenzo...

Dovizioso and Rossi!

Maverick Viñales from Marc Márquez!

There's contact there between Márquez and Rossi!

At the time, the riders were very good,

but they were very polite. They got along well.

They had a lot of respect for each other, and Marc arrived in an irreverent way.

He had a different riding style,

one that was sometimes branded as aggressive.

The good guys don't make it. You can't be nice to your rivals.

And if they say, "There can be a bit of contact."

Well, there will be contact and a bit more.

On a last lap, or the last two or three,

fighting against Jorge Lorenzo, Dani Pedrosa, or Valentino Rossi,

there is no gap.

There's no gap, they won't allow it.

Huge moment for Márquez!

Sometimes you have to create that gap.

You have to create it, throw yourself in. Or you both need to move.

Some riders have done it wrong and haven't succeeded.

Others ride on the edge and have succeeded.

That's what makes a real difference on the last lap.

He doesn't know how to ride any other way.

But as a rider, I like it, I like being risky.

CIRCUIT OF THE AMERICAS GRAND PRIX OF THE AMERICAS

Our problem in Austin wasn't a mechanical failure, but a human error.

Marc Márquez is in last place after turn one.

Let's see if he can fight his way back...

THE ACHIEVEMENT OF ESTORIL PORTUGUESE GRAND PRIX - 2010

What happened in Estoril in 2010 had to happen.

Fantastic start.

The red flag came out. And I fell during my reconnaissance laps.

The bike had to get fixed...

I had to come out last and do my best start of the year.

My fairing was bent, the suspension wasn't working as it should.

If it happened to me now, I probably wouldn't risk it,

but right then, when it happened,

I thought, "I have to fix this for the team and I'm going to win."

In 2010, my comeback gave me extra motivation.

I always had someone to hunt, you know?

You pass one, there's someone after him, and then someone else.

I like making my life complicated.

AUSTIN GRAND PRIX OF THE AMERICAS - 2022

Let's see if he can fight his way back...

"0:45, 0:44."

Look, that's it.

MARC FINISHES 6TH IN AUSTIN

I had a meeting with the team.

And I didn't let you guys in because it was more than just a meeting.

"Guys, we win and lose together. How many times have I screwed up?"

In the past ten years we hadn't had any mechanical or human error on the bike.

And I told them, "Guys, we fucking own the grid, you guys and me."

It came out like that. I also had to talk to the Japanese guys that were angry.

"How could this happen?" I said, "Hey!"

"Ten years. One mistake. Are you going to fire him for this?"

"For one mistake? How many did he avoid?" I said it just like that.

It was frustrating because it was a track that...

I don't like saying this, but I think I could have won.

A little worse now, dude.

-I'm all sore, like always. -Okay.

These muscles don't get tired, but it really hurts back here.

Did it hurt on the bike? No? Sore... So it didn't hurt, but you felt it...

Yes.

MADRID SPAIN

I need my people close. Even though I need my space,

I want them close, you know? I want them to be there.

People think when we get home all we do is ride all day.

ÁLEX MÁRQUEZ MARC'S BROTHER

No. We have a life.

-Good morning. -Morning.

Good morning, how are you doing?

Are you tired or what?

I'm sick, guys. I have a runny nose.

It's important to disconnect and separate your personal and professional lives.

He's lost...

How many miles is it? How many? No, really.

-Fifty, right? About 50. -Fifty? Fifty, dude...

What we did in the mountain was harder than this, 100%.

It mentally drains me.

Are you eating tuna?

Summer is almost here, man...

Marc has the same personality on the track and off the track.

Eighty, man...

Come on, I'm going in.

We're leaving the house!

Guys, one of you farted. You farted. Bastard.

Come on, man, not in here!

-It wasn't me. -Sure.

-It's coming from the landfill over here. -Of course.

What is this, dude?

Should I pull over here?

TOWN CENTER NAVACERRADA

You can do cool routes up here on the road bike. It's nice up here.

4 MILES TO MOUNTAIN PASS

There was a moment back there I almost threw up.

We also know how to separate

when we're on the track, when we're at home,

when we're riding bicycles, or when we're out partying.

I'm not feeling well today.

-I almost threw up earlier. -Really?

-That canned tuna... -You're serious?

You know when you have a lot of saliva?

He looked like a cow.

The salmon, the tuna, and the eel.

We caught up to him a bit, didn't we, Carri?

Yes.

ALGARVE INTERNATIONAL CIRCUIT PORTUGUESE GRAND PRIX

My dad is an active person.

If you take away his motorhome and the things he likes doing, he'll die.

He drives the motorhome because he loves it, and he just enjoys doing it.

I've told him, "When you get tired of it, we'll find you a driver."

But he drives because he likes feeling accomplished, like many of us do.

If I didn't have it now, I might feel like I'm missing something,

JULIÀ MÁRQUEZ MARC'S FATHER

because I'm used to following a routine.

He loves going to the track.

I've always set some rules when it comes to...

If you come to the track with me, you can stay with us,

but you can't make any comments to the team.

No comments to the mechanics about the bike.

That's a sacred rule for me.

They let me into the box.

I don't ask. Later at night, when they get to the motorhome,

if they want to talk about something, we talk. If not...

it's okay.

Happy birthday to you!

ÁLEX MÁRQUEZ CELEBRATES HIS BIRTHDAY THE NIGHT BEFORE THE RACE

Happy birthday, dear Álex!

Happy birthday, Álex!

Thank you.

I turned 26. Thank you all!

The days went by, but it kept hurting.

After a year, I was supposed to be 100% recovered.

They focused on a dynamic that was more intense and it got worse.

Portimão was really tough.

I know exactly how I'm riding,

what areas I have to improve, and what's going on.

I could tell my arm was slowing me down.

I remember it as a good race, but stressful.

Having him behind is pretty stressful.

"Why didn't you pass me?

"I was right in front of you and I had someone ahead of me."

I couldn't do it, I mean...

He's an old hand, and in the last turn,

he changed his trajectory so that I couldn't pass him.

Álex Márquez, will he snatch sixth? No, he doesn't!

That's a battle won by older brother Marc Márquez.

Good thing he stayed back. If not, you'd be flying with Vueling.

You pulled your old hand moves on me.

I pulled the old hand move on the last turn.

When I knew he was coming fast, I went, "Hey." That's when he had to...

You were cornered.

"Shit, where do I brake, where?" Two-tenths of a second. Meow.

This guy's stupid.

Finish line, four-tenths of a second, meow.

Finish line, meow. Right there.

-Twenty-thousandths of a second. -That's it.

That was only for sixth place, imagine if it was for first.

-Meow. -Then it would really be meow.

Well, he is a pretty big asshole. Not only on the track, in a lot of areas.

He's not wearing shorts because he didn't shave his legs.

No, because...

Because it's not summer.

Being Marc's brother... I'm okay with it.

In the past, I think I've obsessed about people comparing us all the time.

Trying to compare yourself to Marc is hard.

Any rider comes out losing against him.

There's no point comparing with him, because it's nonsense.

We're two peas in a pod, I think we both give each other energy.

We rile each other up, and that's very important.

He isn't a brother, he's my best friend, and we understand each other.

Between them, they create a sort of shield.

ROSER ALENTÁ MARC'S MOTHER

They protect and take good care of each other.

Dude...

They can get in a fight and five minutes later

they're looking for each other. "What should we do?"

For me, my brother is...

I won't say my right hand, but he's my left hand.

If you took my brother from my personal life,

not professional, but personal, I would suffer.

We both have our own things going on in our professional life,

but you spend more time at home than on the tracks.

No shields!

He's done.

Behind you! Back here. Over here.

-On the right. -He was in between!

Up! No!

Come on, dude, help me!

We have to hide.

He's going up the stairs! Look at them.

Look at their tactics, dude! Another one!

Go!

Okay, one down!

No!

-Are you stupid, dude? -My bad. I was blinded.

Okay. Shit!

2,000 bucks and you got 23,000.

23,000 bucks? From what?

The gorilla.

After I raced in Portimão,

and felt absolutely destroyed on Sunday, I thought, "Nothing's changed."

"It's getting better..." No, nothing has changed.

The arm is mine, and it's what I feel. And I feel no difference.

CIRCUIT OF JEREZ SPANISH GRAND PRIX

When we got to Jerez on Thursday, I felt bad vibes.

When you're hurting, you try not to think about it, but you can't forget it.

That's when I decided that, in order to make it to Sunday,

my strategy would be to ride easy on Friday, push on Saturday,

and to give it my all on Sunday.

And the only way to do that is by doing what everyone criticizes so much,

being aggressive.

Forcing the situation while I follow somebody, so when they brake, I brake,

when they accelerate, I accelerate,

and if they lean towards the outside, I go with them.

That's the strategy I chose for Jerez, which worked to get me to QP 2,

helped me qualify. And then I did an okay race.

MARC FINISHES 4TH IN JEREZ

I can finish the year in seventh, eighth, ninth, or tenth place,

but that's not what I want moving forward.

I considered retiring by the age of 31, but I really didn't want to.

I pushed as hard as I could, but in Jerez, no matter how hard I tried to push it,

my arm just couldn't take it. That's when I said no.

At Le Mans is when my mother, my father, my brother, José, Emilio, and Alberto...

LE MANS CIRCUIT FRENCH GRAND PRIX

...figured out something was going on.

But they didn't know exactly what it was.

He knew he couldn't continue like that,

taking anti-inflammatories all the time... It was a nightmare.

Marc doesn't want to be fourth, fifth, or sixth. He wants to win.

There wasn't really anything else we could do.

It wasn't my last bullet. It was my only bullet.

MARC PHONES DOCTOR SÁNCHEZ-SOTELO, FROM MAYO CLINIC

I mean, this call is to get an appointment...

Sure. If he answers "yes" to all these questions,

if he says 20 degrees is too much, that it'll get better,

then I'll ask for an appointment and go.

Hey, Marc, how are you?

Hello. How are you? What's going on?

Talk to me. What are you feeling? What do you think?

I feel pretty stagnant.

Especially considering the way I position myself on the fast bike,

which is what I compete with, it's constant pain.

On the elbow, I feel no improvement.

When I brake, I can't keep my elbow extended, I can't keep my arm straight.

So I don't get that last part right.

I sort of split the turn into two parts.

We definitely know what the problem is.

We also know the solution, which is to perform an osteotomy.

That's the technical term for the procedure,

which involves cutting the bone

in a controlled fashion, in a very specific place.

We rotate and position the bone so that it stabilizes.

So if after all these months, you're determined to move forward,

I think it's a good alternative. Do you think so?

Yes, I do.

If I send you the files, and you get them by the end of the week,

or actually end of next week, can you operate on me? Or...

We could do it in about 15 or 20 days at the earliest, I'd say.

I'll try to send this at fucking full throttle, like we say...

Perfect.

And that's it. We'll stay in touch.

Perfect. Whatever you need, call me or text me.

-Okay, thanks a lot, Joaquín. -Big hug.

-All right, thanks a lot. Later. -Thank you.

If he wasn't sure, he would've said...

-"You don't need it." -Yes.

-But he didn't say that. -Right.

-Right. -That's the most important takeaway.

He sounded sure of it.

I needed surgery.

Otherwise, it wouldn't make sense to keep competing like that,

because I couldn't give it my 100%.

It was either that or retiring.

MARC FINISHES THE RACE IN 6TH PLACE

PIT LANE

AFTER THE RACE, HE MEETS WITH HIS TEAM

TO ANNOUNCE HE WANTS TO UNDERGO SURGERY

-You'll be fine. -Yes, you'll be fine.

I thought you were having a kid or something...

No. Well, not that I know of.

-Okay. -Thank you.

-Hope it goes well. -All right.

Did he say "I hope it goes well?"

It's a slap in the face for them,

because they know what I'm going through and they can tell.

Actually, two of the Italian teammates told me,

"We were scared when they told us we had a post-race meeting.

"Last time we had a post-race meeting in a truck

"was when we worked with Casey Stoner and he told us he was retiring."

It was here that Casey Stoner told us he was retiring.

That he was retiring?

I said it earlier and...

If they think that, imagine what they think about me.

This Takeo guy is nuts.

TAKEO YOKOYAMA HRC TECHNICAL MANAGER

I have an anecdote with Takeo.

In the Malaysia tests, the first tests of 2013...

FIRST YEAR WITH TAKEO MOTOGP - 2013

I fell four times. And I remember he told me,

"With that riding style you'll never make it."

"All you do is break the bike."

"You're not going to get anywhere and you'll end up hurting yourself."

And I told him, "You worry about fixing the bike.

"If I get hurt, the doctors will take care of it."

And that was it. He went pale, the conversation was over.

When people ask me, "What was your most special championship?" 2013.

That year, there were no limits.

If I got a podium, amazing.

If I won...

fucking great.

The hospitality box was a constant party.

The Japanese guys didn't understand what was going on,

and then we had this joke all year, "Takeo!"

Márquez! Márquez!

For me, Valentino Rossi is show.

He was an idol to me.

In 2014, after the race at Misano,

I went to his ranch. We were there for a day.

We were competing over who could beat the record on his track.

And starting from that day...

Márquez and Rossi!

Márquez is down! Marc Márquez has crashed out!

I think something changed.

Rossi just holds for...

Rossi's through the gravel! Rossi is going to win the race! Valentino...

The relationship cooled off a bit. I don't know why.

-Rossi looks really confident! Rossi! -Márquez has crashed!

Maybe he was bothered that I beat his track record. I don't know...

The word on the street is that it was one of the reasons, but...

There're even angels flying around.