Jorge Lorenzo, who shared many years at the highest level with Marc Márquez during his career in the MotoGP world championship, spoke about Marc’s mentality during those years.
The former Spanish rider spoke to the podcast “The Wild Project” about Marc and compared his mentality to that of his rivals at the time Lorenzo was competing.
– He didn’t mind throwing you off the track. As a person, he’s a very normal guy, from a very small town. But on the track he’s a killer. But like Pedrosa, Stoner, Rossi or me. He didn’t mind throwing us off the track. In fact, he threw a lot of riders in 125, 250 and even MotoGP. And he paid for it many times over. He was very dangerous as a rival, because he was the only one who didn’t mind getting hurt. The rest of us didn’t want to get hurt. When a fighter doesn’t mind getting hurt, he’s very dangerous. Well, he didn’t mind falling, getting hurt, breaking something…’
He added: ‘He was a pit bull: if he was doing badly on the track or if the bike wasn’t going well, he wanted to win anyway. He wouldn’t accept second or third. Pedrosa or Stoner, if they had a bad day, would take the points and think about the next race. He didn’t do that, he always wanted to win and when you meet someone like that it’s difficult.