MotoGP, Alex Marquez: “Marc? When you fall at 30 it’s different than at 20”

At the Sachsenring they were both protagonists of crashes, but on the day that matters most, Sunday, they stepped on the podium, giving a historic result to Gresini Racing and to themselves an achievement that has been reached few times in the history of MotoGP, since to find two brothers in the top three one has to rewind the tape to 1997 with Nobuatsu and Takuma Aoki.

Alex and Marc Marquez in Germany wrote a beautiful page of sport, and strong in this knowledge they could afford to joke about each other’s crashes, exhausted with only a few grazes for the younger man and the eight-time world champion with a broken finger and bruised ribs.

“On Saturday I suffered, but afterwards I recovered, while Marc suffered a little more. At 31 when you do a highside you feel it more. I also told him it’s different now than when he was a 20-year-old,” Alex’s quip picked up by Motorsport.com Spanish edition.

The high spirits of the Ducatista, who good-naturedly poked fun at his older brother departing at the end of the season official team direction alongside Pecco Bagnaia, was also justified by an almost unhoped-for third place, achieved after several attempts went awry.

“The podium could perhaps have come sooner, for example in Jerez I had come close, however I am very happy. When I was on the grid I thought that, being optimistic, I would finish seventh, as I had never had a great rhythm in practice and in addition on Saturday I was not in perfect shape, but in the race the conditions improved,” he concluded, extolling the excitement felt in sharing the experience with the experienced and familiar pit neighbor.

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