Marc Marquez, Alberto Puig’s words reignite debate
Waiting to see him back on the track after the’injury that prevented him from running the last races of a triumphant MotoGp season for him anyway, Marc Marquez is back at the center of the debate after the words that Alberto Puig, his pygmalion in his Honda days, entrusted to a documentary broadcast by the Spanish version of Dazn. The Catalan manager, in particular, has no doubt that without the series of injuries that kept Marquez away from the circuits for the entire 2020 season, now the number 93 would have one more title and, therefore, would have reached double digits under World Championships won.
“That year he would not only have won the World Championship but he would have really dominated it – sentenced Puig -He was so fast, much faster than the rest of the riders on the grid. I say this in all honesty, it”s something that I don”t just think. Nevertheless, Marquez’s 2020 is the only one of the Catalan centaur’s career to record zero points in the standings with only one race started, the July 19, 2020 race at Jerez, which saw Marquez retire on lap 22. The number 93 would run two more years at Honda, but had to contend with continued physical problems and below-expectation performance at Honda.
Puig’s words inflamed the discussion especially on social media: on the one hand the supporters of Marc Marquez who confirm what Puig said, on the other hand those who, instead, point out that in that very season, marked by the revolution at the level of the calendar due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Honda would not place any of its riders, neither of the official team (in addition to Marquez there’were his replacement Stefan Bradl and Marc’s brother Alex), nor from the LCR team (Nakagami and Crutchlow) in the top nine positions in the MotoGp World Championship, which was won by Joan Mir on Suzuki ahead of Franco Morbidelli on Yamaha.
