Marquez jokes with Bezzecchi and Acosta: “In right-hand corners I looked like Abe”

What a laugh in the post-Sprint

From ‘eco-mode’ to ‘Abe-mode’ the step is short. Marc Marquez yesterday dominated the Hungarian GP Sprint, but at the end of the race, chatting with Marco Bezzecchi and Pedro Acosta, he joked about the riding style he had to adopt due to his inevitably approximate physical condition.

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“How are you? There are many left-hand corners here, which are your specialty,” Bezzecchi asked him. “Good,” Marquez replied, “but at the end of the race, in the right-hand corners, I looked like Abe because I kept my head up so much.” “Come on, not that much,” Acosta observed amidst laughter for the tribute to the beloved and iconic Norifumi ‘Norick’ Abe, a two-time GP winner in the 500 class in Japan in 1996 and Brazil in 1999.

“At the start of the race, you were going very fast,” Bezzecchi added, with Acosta emphasizing how impressed he was by Marquez’s first lap. “Exiting Turn 4, I couldn’t see you anymore; it looked like a time-attack,” said the KTM rider, with Marquez shrugging and replying, “A missile.”

Marc Marquez was reminded of Norick Abe by his brother Alex, as Marc himself recounted: “Watching the Mugello race, Alex told me that when I start to get tired, I start riding a bit like Abe.”

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