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Surely you know a brand of deodorant that creates a kind of shamanic effect. Putting on a squirt of deodorant gives you superpowers to conquer women with extreme ease (you see how frivolous, as if it were so simple), but it seems that Marc Márquez has some secret weapon that gives him greater ease than other pilots to master the MotoGP World Championship: the Marquez effect.
Yesterday's race was another example of race management. Another tire strategy that on Saturday cost him two crashes and abandon the fight for pole position. In return, he knew where the limits of the harder compound tires were, determining in his fifth victory of the season, and a coup of authority that returns him to the leadership.
Márquez, the rider who best understands the Michelin
Other than 93, only Cal Crutchlow used the configuration hard front with hard rear. Why risk being the only one who chose these rubbers? Easy, because after a totally unproductive Friday he found out on Saturday that for the race it was a real option that could give him victory.
During the first laps, Márquez could be seen noticeably more off the hook and trying to control a Honda that wouldn't stop shaking. Márquez's bet was once again decisive. During the day on Saturday, already in dry conditions, Márquez tested all possible tire combinations. When he got on the hard-hard and started shooting he immediately went to the ground. And not just once, but twice, losing all options for pole position.
It is an open secret that Márquez is one of the pilots who falls the most of the entire MotoGP grid (22 in total this 2017), but he has the ability to do it mostly in practice searching and finding the limits of Michelin tires, being the rider who best knows how to choose the right combination, as demonstrated again at MotorLand.
French tires are decisive in the development of the championship and Márquez has been the pilot who has best understood them in each GP
The start of the race dominated once again by Jorge Lorenzo (something that is already becoming common), with Rossi bordering on epicity and Dovizioso struggling not to leave the podium and undo the tie in the general standings in his favor, Cervera's remained in the rear while the others wore out his physique and your tires.
In the tight marking done on Dovizioso he finished in the finish line with 17 laps remaining, taking advantage of a mistake by Dovizioso who seemed to suffer for staying close to the leaders. The Ducati one was losing steam while Márquez kept glued to Rossi's wheel until he made a overly optimistic move which returned him to fourth position. The only one but in a perfect career management.
Marquez wanted to try it, predictably preparing for the end of the race in which yes or yes he should be ahead of Dovizioso, although for 93 the motivation came from elsewhere: "I am very happy with this victory because it was a tough race. all comfortable with the bike, and today I had some difficulty again except in the warm up. In any case, competing on one of my favorite circuits, close to home and in front of my fans, gives me extra motivation."
With 12 remaining to go, he passed Rossi, and four later, where he slipped before, he assumed the lead, not without difficulty, suffering from grip on the front end, but he was going for it. "I have tightened a lot and in some corners just I've hit the reset button in my head, despite the fact that yesterday I fell twice. I have seen that Viñales and Dovizioso found it a bit difficult and I knew it was time to attack and I have done so ", voracity in its purest form.
"After the first wash I've calmed down a bit"acknowledged Márquez who began to have to defend himself again when his teammate came with a lot of pace." I have had some scares, one when I was trying to overtake Valentino. When I passed Lorenzo, I continued until I saw that Dani Pedrosa was coming very fast ".
Achievement defend the first position with a new almost unique tire bet. Maybe he didn't need to take so many risks with Dovizioso riding in fifth position, but as he laughs himself, "that's the Márquez way."
Taking risks when not necessary, that is the only calculator that Márquez knows how to draw in his fight for the MotoGP World Championship
Márquez has shown once again that he does not know how to get the calculator, which is to win or win when the situations are favorable, and after the Aragon race he adds 93 one of the most important victories of the season: "Obviously it is important to think about the championship, but the situation now requires that we give it our all."
With a 16-point income on Andrea Dovizioso, Marc will start the Asian tour in two weeks ready to count victories by races, "we will try to continue with the same motivation and mentality race to race, giving our 100%".
