Alex Marquez’s crucial role in saving Marc Marquez: “You’d be making a mistake”
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Marc was flung into the air in a horrible highside during the warm-up for the Indonesian MotoGP, the latest in a series of physical blows he had sustained in a two-year period.His new Amazon Prime Video documentary ‘Marc Marquez: ALL IN’ reveals how he planned to defy logic by starting the race shortly after the worst highside of his career, until his brother intervened.”You don’t want to ride again” – Marc Marquez talks about his Mandalika | MotoGP 2023Video of "You don't want to ride again" – Marc Marquez talks about his Mandalika | MotoGP 2023“When I got back to the track I wasn’t seeing double yet,” Marc said in the documentary. “I wanted to race. My brother said: ‘Do not race, man’.”Marc had already suffered with diplopia, a double-vision issue, as well as arm injuries. The highside in the Mandalika warm-up gave him a concussion, the hospital said at the time.LCR Honda rider Alex told the documentary: “I saw where he had hit his head. I said: ‘This gives me a bad feeling’. After the warm-up I assumed he wouldn’t race.“I was in his office and I remember that [crew chief Santi Hernandez] came in – ‘everything is ready’, because that’s his job. Confused MotoGP fans left waiting for new Marquez documentary“But in that moment I thought ‘no’. I stood up to him. I said: ‘Look, Marc doesn’t race’. There are a lot of races but only one life. You’d be making a mistake today.“It seemed like he didn’t want to race but he needed somebody to calm him down and say ‘you don’t have to race’.”Related Marc Marquez All In release date: Amazon Prime Video details Confused MotoGP fans left waiting for new Marquez documentaryRepsol Honda rider Marc said about his brother: “He said: ‘You can’t go out there, you took a bash out there, it is unfeasible’.“The diplopia got worse and I said: ‘okay I won’t race’. I had a fall, a hard one, double vision. But it still wasn’t as bad as the other falls.”The Amazon Prime Video documentary goes on to chart Marc’s career-threatening arm surgery last summer and his subsequent comeback.
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