01x02 - Talent

[bunniefuu]

ALL NEGATIVE THINGS, PRESSURE
AND OBSTACLES ARE A CHANCE TO GROW

DON'T COUNT DAYS, MAKE DAYS COUNT

[Marc] In life,
you have different types of people.

In life,
there shouldn't be good guys and bad guys.

I consider myself a normal person.

As a rider, on the track, I'm an as*h*le.
[chuckles]

[chuckles]

[laughs] See? He said it all.

[commentator] Here we go! Oh, they touch!

Marc Márquez on Lorenzo...

Dovizioso and Rossi!

Maverick Viñales from Marc Márquez!

There's contact there
between Márquez and Rossi!

[Riveras]
At the time, the riders were very good,

but they were very polite.
They got along well.

They had a lot of respect for each other,
and Marc arrived in an irreverent way.

He had a different riding style,

one that was sometimes
branded as aggressive.

[commentator 1]
He's going to knock him off!

[commentator 2] Rossi is on the grass!

[Marc] The good guys don't make it.
You can't be nice to your rivals.

And if they say,
"There can be a bit of contact."

Well, there will be contact
and a bit more.

On a last lap, or the last two or three,

fighting against Jorge Lorenzo,
Dani Pedrosa, or Valentino Rossi,

there is no gap.

There's no gap, they won't allow it.

[commentator] Huge moment for Márquez!

Sometimes, you have to create that gap.

You have to create it, throw yourself in.
Or you both need to move.

Some riders have done it wrong
and haven't succeeded.

Others ride on the edge
and have succeeded.

That's what makes a real difference
on the last lap.

He doesn't know how to ride any other way.

But as a rider, I like it,
I like being risky.

CIRCUIT OF THE AMERICAS
GRAND PRIX OF THE AMERICAS

Our problem in Austin wasn't
a mechanical failure, but a human error.

[commentator 1] Terrible start.

Marc Márquez,
he is right at the very back of the field!

[commentator 2] Marc Márquez
is in last place after turn one.

Let's see if he can fight his way back...

THE ACHIEVEMENT OF ESTORIL
PORTUGUESE GRAND PRIX - 2010

[Marc] What happened in Estoril in 2010
had to happen.

[commentator 1] Fantastic start.

[commentator 2] The red flag came out.
And I fell during my reconnaissance laps.

[commentator 1] He's down! He's gone now!

This could be massive in the championship!
That's huge!

[Marc] The bike had to get fixed...

[commentator]
Massive moment! It is panic there!

[Marc] I had to come out last
and do my best start of the year.

My fairing was bent, the suspension
wasn't working as it should.

If it happened to me now,
I probably wouldn't risk it,

but right then, when it happened,

I thought, "I have to fix this
for the team and I'm going to win."

[commentator] Into the interior,
parabolica, Nico Terol is back in the lead

but on exit Marc Márquez will reclaim it.

Márquez wins here in Portugal!

Absolutely brilliant.

In 2010, my comeback
gave me extra motivation.

I always had someone to hunt, you know?

You pass one, there's someone after him,
and then someone else.

[chuckles] I like making
my life complicated.

[commentator 1]
Let's see if he can fight his way back...

[commentator 1]
He's trying to get past Maverick Viñales.

His rapid recovery continues.
He's back in the top ten.

Here he comes right up the inside,
Márquez on Martín.

He's now into the top six.
What a recovery!

"0:45, 0:44."

Quartararo and Márquez are having
a titanic tussle, aren't they?

Look, that's it.

[commentator 2] Marc Márquez,
a sensational ride for sixth place.

MARC FINISHES 6TH IN AUSTIN

[Marc] I had a meeting with the team.

And I didn't let you guys in
because it was more than just a meeting.

"Guys, we win and lose together.
How many times have I screwed up?"

In the past ten years we hadn't had
any mechanical or human error on the bike.

And I told them, "Guys,
we f*cking own the grid, you guys and me."

It came out like that. I also had to talk
to the Japanese guys that were angry.

"How could this happen?"
I said, "Hey!"

"Ten years. One mistake.
Are you going to fire him for this?"

"For one mistake? How many
did he avoid?" I said it just like that.

It was frustrating
because it was a track that...

I don't like saying this,
but I think I could have won.

A little worse now, dude.

-I'm all sore, like always.
-Okay.

These muscles don't get tired,
but it really hurts back here.

Did it hurt on the bike? No? Sore...
So it didn't hurt, but you felt it...

Yes.

MADRID
SPAIN

[Marc] I need my people close.
Even though I need my space,

I want them close, you know?
I want them to be there.

People think when we get home
all we do is ride all day.

ÁLEX MÁRQUEZ
MARC'S BROTHER

No. We have a life.

-[Marc] Good morning.
-Morning.

Good morning, how are you doing?

Are you tired or what?

I'm sick, guys. I have a runny nose.

It's important to disconnect and separate
your personal and professional lives.

He's lost...

How many miles is it?
How many? No, really.

-Fifty, right? About 50.
-Fifty? Fifty, dude...

What we did in the mountain
was harder than this, 100%.

It mentally drains me.

Are you eating tuna?

-Summer is almost here, man...
-[whistles]

[Álex] Marc has the same personality
on the track and off the track.

Eighty, man...

Come on, I'm going in.

We're leaving the house!

Guys, one of you farted.
You farted. b*stard.

Come on, man, not in here!

-It wasn't me.
-Sure.

-It's coming from the landfill over here.
-Of course.

[upbeat music playing]

What is this, dude?

Should I pull over here?

[singing along]

TOWN CENTER
NAVACERRADA

[laughing]

You can do cool routes up here
on the road bike. It's nice up here.

4 MILES TO MOUNTAIN PASS

There was a moment back there
I almost threw up.

We also know how to separate

when we're on the track,
when we're at home,

when we're riding bicycles,
or when we're out partying.

I'm not feeling well today.

-I almost threw up earlier.
-Really?

-That canned tuna...
-You're serious?

You know when you have a lot of saliva?

He looked like a cow.

The salmon, the tuna, and the eel.

[all chuckle]

We caught up to him a bit,
didn't we, Carri?

Yes.

ALGARVE INTERNATIONAL CIRCUIT
PORTUGUESE GRAND PRIX

[Marc] My dad is an active person.

If you take away his motorhome
and the things he likes doing, he'll die.

He drives the motorhome because
he loves it, and he just enjoys doing it.

I've told him, "When you get tired of it,
we'll find you a driver."

But he drives because he likes
feeling accomplished, like many of us do.

If I didn't have it now,
I might feel like I'm missing something,

JULIÀ MÁRQUEZ
MARC'S FATHER

because I'm used to following a routine.

[Marc] He loves going to the track.

I've always set some rules
when it comes to...

If you come to the track with me,
you can stay with us,

but you can't make
any comments to the team.

No comments to the mechanics
about the bike.

That's a sacred rule for me.

[Juliá] They let me into the box.

I don't ask. Later at night,
when they get to the motorhome,

if they want to talk about something,
we talk. If not...

it's okay.

[all singing] Happy birthday to you!

ÁLEX MÁRQUEZ CELEBRATES HIS BIRTHDAY
THE NIGHT BEFORE THE RACE

Happy birthday, dear Álex!

Happy birthday, Álex!

Thank you.

I turned 26. Thank you all!

[all cheering]

[Marc]
The days went by, but it kept hurting.

After a year,
I was supposed to be 100% recovered.

They focused on a dynamic
that was more intense and it got worse.

Portimão was really tough.

[commentator] There will be lights out!
Here we go then!

MotoGP underway, Portimão!

I know exactly how I'm riding,

what areas I have to improve,
and what's going on.

I could tell my arm was slowing me down.

I remember it as a good race,
but stressful.

Having him behind is pretty stressful.

[commentator]
A part of the circuit with Marc Márquez.

Very, very close.
Marc is there, and Álex too.

[Álex] "Why didn't you pass me?

"I was right in front of you
and I had someone ahead of me."

I couldn't do it, I mean...

He's an old hand, and in the last turn,

he changed his trajectory
so that I couldn't pass him.

[commentator] Álex Márquez,
will he snatch sixth? No, he doesn't!

That's a battle won
by older brother Marc Márquez.

Good thing he stayed back.
If not, you'd be flying with Vueling.

You pulled your old hand moves on me.

I pulled the old hand move
on the last turn.

When I knew he was coming fast,
I went, "Hey." That's when he had to...

You were cornered.

"sh*t, where do I brake, where?"
Two-tenths of a second. Meow.

This guy's stupid.

Finish line,
four-tenths of a second, meow.

Finish line, meow. Right there.

-Twenty-thousandths of a second.
-That's it.

That was only for sixth place,
imagine if it was for first.

-Meow.
-Then it would really be meow.

Well, he is a pretty big as*h*le.
Not only on the track, in a lot of areas.

He's not wearing shorts
because he didn't shave his legs.

-No, because...
-[laughs]

Because it's not summer.

[Álex]
Being Marc's brother... I'm okay with it.

In the past, I think I've obsessed
about people comparing us all the time.

Trying to compare yourself to Marc
is hard.

Any rider comes out losing against him.

There's no point comparing with him,
because it's nonsense.

We're two peas in a pod,
I think we both give each other energy.

We rile each other up,
and that's very important.

He isn't a brother, he's my best friend,
and we understand each other.

Between them,
they create a sort of shield.

ROSER ALENTÁ
MARC'S MOTHER

They protect
and take good care of each other.

Dude...

They can get in a fight
and five minutes later

they're looking for each other.
"What should we do?"

[Marc] For me, my brother is...

I won't say my right hand,
but he's my left hand.

If you took my brother
from my personal life,

not professional, but personal,
I would suffer.

We both have our own things
going on in our professional life,

but you spend more time at home
than on the tracks.

No shields!

He's done.

Behind you! Back here. Over here.

-On the right.
-He was in between!

Up! No!

Come on, dude, help me!

We have to hide.

He's going up the stairs! Look at them.

Look at their tactics, dude! Another one!

Go!

Okay, one down!

No! No!

-Are you stupid, dude?
-My bad. I was blinded.

Okay. sh*t!

2,000 bucks and you got 23,000.

23,000 bucks? From what?

The gorilla.

After I raced in Portimão,

and felt absolutely destroyed on Sunday,
I thought, "Nothing's changed."

"It's getting better..."
No, nothing has changed.

The arm is mine, and it's what I feel.
And I feel no difference.

CIRCUIT OF JEREZ
SPANISH GRAND PRIX

When we got to Jerez on Thursday,
I felt bad vibes.

When you're hurting, you try not to think
about it, but you can't forget it.

That's when I decided that,
in order to make it to Sunday,

my strategy would be to ride easy
on Friday, push on Saturday,

and to give it my all on Sunday.

And the only way to do that is
by doing what everyone criticizes so much,

being aggressive.

Forcing the situation while I follow
somebody, so when they brake, I brake,

when they accelerate, I accelerate,

and if they lean towards the outside,
I go with them.

That's the strategy I chose for Jerez,
which worked to get me to QP 2,

helped me qualify.
And then I did an okay race.

[commentator]
Look at that! Elbow to elbow between

Aleix Espargaro and Marc Márquez!

Márquez up the inside! Beautiful!

He loses the front,
saves it on his knee!

There he comes, Márquez, up the inside!
Into turn...

You can hear the roar of the crowd!

[crowd cheering]

Márquez! What a job he did to take
fourth place on that last lap from Miller!

MARC FINISHES 4TH IN JEREZ

[Marc] I can finish the year in
seventh, eighth, ninth, or tenth place,

but that's not what I want moving forward.

I considered retiring by the age of 31,
but I really didn't want to.

I pushed as hard as I could, but in Jerez,
no matter how hard I tried to push it,

my arm just couldn't take it.
That's when I said no.

At Le Mans is when my mother, my father,
my brother, José, Emilio, and Alberto

LE MANS CIRCUIT
FRENCH GRAND PRIX

figured out something was going on.

But they didn't know exactly what it was.

[Álex] He knew
he couldn't continue like that,

taking anti-inflammatories all the time...
It was a nightmare.

Marc doesn't want to be fourth,
fifth, or sixth. He wants to win.

There wasn't really
anything else we could do.

It wasn't my last b*llet.
It was my only b*llet.

MARC PHONES DOCTOR SÁNCHEZ-SOTELO,
FROM MAYO CLINIC

[man] I mean, this call
is to get an appointment...

Sure. If he answers "yes"
to all these questions,

if he says 20 degrees is too much,
that it'll get better,

then I'll ask for an appointment and go.

[Joaquín]
Hey, Marc, how are you?

Hello. How are you? What's going on?

Talk to me. What are you feeling?
What do you think?

I feel pretty stagnant.

Especially considering the way
I position myself on the fast bike,

which is what I compete with,
it's constant pain.

On the elbow, I feel no improvement.

When I brake, I can't keep my elbow
extended, I can't keep my arm straight.

So I don't get that last part right.

I sort of split the turn into two parts.

We definitely know what the problem is.

We also know the solution,
which is to perform an osteotomy.

That's the technical term
for the procedure,

which involves cutting the bone

in a controlled fashion,
in a very specific place.

We rotate and position the bone
so that it stabilizes.

So if after all these months,
you're determined to move forward,

I think it's a good alternative.
Do you think so?

[Marc] Yes, I do.

If I send you the files,
and you get them by the end of the week,

or actually end of next week,
can you operate on me? Or...

We could do it in about 15 or 20 days
at the earliest, I'd say.

I'll try to send this
at f*cking full throttle, like we say...

Perfect.

And that's it. We'll stay in touch.

Perfect. Whatever you need,
call me or text me.

-Okay, thanks a lot, Joaquín.
-Big hug.

-All right, thanks a lot. Later.
-Thank you.

If he wasn't sure, he would've said...

-"You don't need it."
-Yes.

-But he didn't say that.
-Right.

-Right.
-That's the most important takeaway.

He sounded sure of it.

I needed surgery.

Otherwise, it wouldn't make sense
to keep competing like that,

because I couldn't give it my 100%.

It was either that or retiring.

MARC FINISHES THE RACE IN 6TH PLACE

PIT LANE

I didn't say anything to you before
because I was just doing the weekend,

I tried to concentrate and focus
and find the best results.

Now they are checking
the Mayo Clinic in America.

But most probably I will have
another surgery on the arm.

To finish the season like this...
Today I ride, yeah,

the first laps not so bad,
but then I ride my 70%.

Thinking about...
Always thinking about the arm,

and like this I can't set the bike up well
or the electronics, I cannot...

I cannot... I mean, I cannot ride.

"Man, okay, the bike." Because
in the beginning, "No, the bike..."

But I cannot ride. I mean,
with this bike I can be faster.

I mean, it's not an amazing bike,
but I can be faster.

And like this,
I prefer to stop now because if not...

Okay, you see I accept to finish sixth,
seventh, eighth, but it's not my style.

But I accept it like this because, if not,
I will get injured about another thing,

because I will crash more times.

Now, every time I try to make rhythm
or push more than what I feel...

Crash, crash, crash.

[man] Will you lose all the year?

[Marc] No. My plan
is to do it now, because, uh...

They say around three months.

Finish the year, make the last races,

make the Valencia test
and make a normal winter.

-You'll be fine.
-Yes, you'll be fine.

I thought you were having
a kid or something...

No. Well, not that I know of.

-Okay.
-Thank you.

-Hope it goes well.
-All right.

Did he say "I hope it goes well?"

It's a slap in the face for them,

because they know what I'm going through
and they can tell.

Actually, two of the Italian
teammates told me,

"We were scared when they told us
we had a post-race meeting.

"Last time we had
a post-race meeting in a truck

"was when we worked with Casey Stoner
and he told us he was retiring."

It was here that Casey Stoner
told us he was retiring.

That he was retiring?

I said it earlier and...

If they think that,
imagine what they think about me.

I know which type of guy
Marc Márquez is, I know this.

This Takeo guy is nuts.

I was hoping that someday, suddenly,
you wake up in the morning and,

TAKEO YOKOYAMA
HRC TECHNICAL MANAGER

"f*ck, I feel so good..."

I try, I try also, and I hope, but...

-I'm not able to do ten push-ups.
-Can't continue like this, yeah.

But that was the past,
and will be the future,

-but now the present is like this.
-Okay.

But this change is to try
to make the future better.

-Yeah.
-Because if not,

like this I will survive
one year, two years,

and I will stop racing.

I have an anecdote with Takeo.

In the Malaysia tests,
the first tests of 2013...

FIRST YEAR WITH TAKEO
MOTOGP - 2013

I fell four times.
And I remember he told me,

"With that riding style
you'll never make it."

"All you do is break the bike."

"You're not going to get anywhere
and you'll end up hurting yourself."

And I told him,
"You worry about fixing the bike.

"If I get hurt,
the doctors will take care of it."

And that was it. He went pale,
the conversation was over.

"Nothing to say! Boom!"

[commentator] Ladies and gentlemen!

And still the king of the ring!
Marc Márquez wins!

When people ask me, "What was
your most special championship?" 2013.

That year, there were no limits.

If I got a podium, amazing.

If I won...

f*cking great. [chuckles]

The hospitality box was a constant party.

The Japanese guys
didn't understand what was going on,

and then we had
this joke all year, "Takeo!"

"I'm the same guy from Malaysia!"

[commentator] The new world champion in
MotoGP in 2013 is the rookie Marc Márquez.

Twenty years old, 266 days.

The youngest ever winner!
Epic season! Epic performance!

[crowd chanting] Márquez! Márquez!

[engine revving]

For me, Valentino Rossi is show.

He was an idol to me.

In 2014, after the race at Misano,

I went to his ranch.
We were there for a day.

We were competing over who could beat
the record on his track.

And starting from that day...

[commentator] Márquez and Rossi!

Márquez is down!
Marc Márquez has crashed out!

I think something changed.

[commentator] Rossi just holds for...

Rossi's through the gravel! Rossi is
going to win the race! Valentino...

The relationship cooled off a bit.
I don't know why.

-Rossi looks really confident! Rossi!
-Márquez has crashed!

Maybe he was bothered that I beat
his track record. I don't know...

The word on the street is
that it was one of the reasons, but...

There're even angels flying around.