Marquez confirms himself as king at Sachsenring
Sunday, May 31 at the end of the Italian GP at Mugello Marc Marquez was at -102 points from Marco Bezzecchi, winner in the home race.
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Marquez gritted his teeth and collected important points to avoid losing further ground in the championship. Not even the most optimistic of his fans could have imagined that just over 40 days later Marquez would go on vacation at -18 points from the World Championship leader, Jorge Martin.
“The standings? I don’t even know what I’m doing there – Marquez said to the microphones of Sky – five races ago I was 100 points behind.”
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“I said it on Thursday – Marquez added – if I wanted to have any chance to fight for this championship I had to be perfect this weekend and I was“.