Eight world titles at 26 years old and he just gets better and better with experience. There doesnt seem to be chink in his armour. His pace has always been impressive but his race craft, calm head and ability to safe the front at will make him almost unbeatable.
And best of all you can see he just enjoys racing bikes and is having fun
All the crash data comes from the airbag suit , I guess they must work pretty well if you can walk away from a 26G impact and ride again the same afternoon and then win a race 2 days later .
In a 30mph collision with a fixed object, a person of average weight (@160lbs....clearly not anyone near where I live) experiences about 30G at the moment of impact. But in a car they're restrained, so the compression force acts only on the seatbelts...well, and the car's crush-zones, or whatever they're called, effectively slowing down the impact, albeit very quickly.
I'll bet Marquez' suit reading was relative to something stationery, as opposed to something that was moving.
Not until he gets seriously hurt I suspect as he is clearly having too much fun racing motorcycles for a living.
Look at the other riders who are serious and focused and little stressed. Marc is focused but you can clearly see his excitement and joy about what he does.
He's only won 8 world championships. I reckon he wants top spot which is 15 I think. He'll certainly want to beat Rossi. Plus there's the most wins in the top class races to go for as well. I need to google that. I know he beat Hailwood's record recently so that puts him 4th.
Well, if he gets to 115 - and presumably surpasses that figure, at that point wouldn't you keep going for another seven or eight wins?? You'd think he'd at least take a stab at it...I mean, why not?
I would go for 16 titles and beat Agos all time record which I believe is 15 titles.
However imo he would beat it massively as Ago had a huge advantage in collecting world titles in that when Ago took his titles you could race in multiple championships in one year, so could be world title in more than one class in any one year.
If Marquez was racing in moto2 and Motogp he would be very close to 15 titles now.
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