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"Your ambition has surpassed your talent". It is perhaps the best-known phrase in the history of the MotoGP World Championship and was said by Casey Stoner to Valentino Rossi after a wet race in Jerez in which the Italian threw the Australian. Rossi went to the Honda box to apologize for his mistake, and found a lapidary phrase.
In 2021 Jorge Martín is a newcomer to the World Cup, and not a world champion with the authority to say a phrase like that neither more nor less than to Marc Márquez. But he sure would have liked it. Because the eighth champion again showed symptoms of his frustration in one maneuver, another, too hasty.
Márquez has six falls in ten races since returning from injury
Jorge Martín's race, and also Marc Márquez's, looked very good before the race at Silverstone. The young Madrid rider has made a 'match' with the Ducati, he is sweet and had a rhythm at least to fight for his third consecutive podium. Marquez, for his part, was also in a position to achieve a good result.
Before the race the Honda champion had explained that what he wanted to learn at Silverstone, what he really wanted to test, was his perseverance, but once again he jumped into the air in a fit of rage. Martín put the cape on him with a close advance, and Márquez entered fully wanting revenge in the next corner.
After Márquez's injury in Jerez last season the story was unanimously established, even in his environment, that the champion had to learn to be calmer, forget the tantrums and psychological games that are understandable in a young aspirant and greatly distort the image of a revered champion.
However, it is not what we are seeing. On the contrary, he maintains his usual aggressiveness but things no longer work out for him. As Luca Cadalora said "has lost the magic", and every time the over-excited Márquez comes to light, it is he who comes out shorn, in this case taking Martín ahead.
With the Marc Márquez of 2021 there is an elephant in the room that there it is, but that nobody wants to talk about. It is not so fast anymore. MotoGP has changed a lot compared to the one he left in 2019, even compared to that first race of 2020 in which no one yet knew about the new Michelin tires.
This is not to say that Márquez will never win again, in fact, he most likely will. If something has shown, even above talent, it is work capacity. And these fiery errors have a positive side: they show that Marquez is really motivated. He is not a pilot scared by injury.
The negative part is that, at least from outside the door, an arm injury that is already overcome is still being sold as the great cause of its problems, and after which he has already won a race: at the Sachsenring, and the only one of the whole year in dry that has been slower than the last one that had been held. Along with Silverstone, but it was erased in the first round.
Marquez is no longer so superior. It is more, it is no longer superiorAnd if he ever does it again, it will not be because he has already recovered from his arm, but because he has gone to work as he has done so many times throughout his career. Although for reasons that escape one, they sell that it has been a miraculous recovery instead of the pilot's job.
The new Michelin tires have changed the world championship. The races are faster, and enough with take a look at the times for 2019, Marquez's last full year, and compare them to 2021 to check. The ideal way to ride a wider tire favors inline four cylinder bikes, Yamaha and Suzuki.
In addition, the rivals have grown a lot in his absence. It was speculated during the races that it was not there if the equality was due to the fact that the level was high or low, but the doubts have been dispelled: Marc Márquez has returned to MotoGP and is a top rider, yes, but at the same level as the Fabio Quartararo, Miguel Oliveira, Jorge Martín, Aleix Espargaró, Joan Mir and company.
Comes MotorLand, a left-wing circuit that could benefit you enormously and, who knows, get the second victory of the season, although for that he would have to tie a tie to a Fabio Quartararo who is sweet and flies with these new Michelin tires. Márquez's progress exists, but the first laps have to be finished.
Márquez apologized after hitting Martín, which honors him, but he once again left his stamp explaining that "I have too many fingers on one hand to count the times I've done something like this in my career." Without going any further, in the last Grand Prix of Styria you can already use two other fingers. Humility is the first step to improve. And that's six falls in ten races after the injury.
