It shouldn’t be easy to live with a camera during a whole MotoGP season, especially if things don’t go as expected. Even when he woke up from his fourth operation on the humerus of his right arm, the first thing he saw Marc Márquez it was the camera that was recording him for the Amazon Prime Video docuseries, with five chapters, which will be released tomorrow and which has been presented today in Madrid before taking a motorcycle ride through the streets of the capital, accompanied by a caravan of fans also on two wheels.
After that walk from Puerta del Ángel to Plaza de España, also exhibiting along a Gran Vía cut for him, the first chapter of Marc Márquez has been released to the public on a giant screen: All Inn, that with all or all or nothing of the eight-time champion that will bring him even closer to the fans. The ilerdense was clear that last season, after a two-year ordeal that unexpectedly lasted one more, in 2022, it was time to let himself be recorded in his privacy: “I am very open in my professional field, but I had never taught what I is my core. I had had many proposals to do it before, but it didn’t make sense until the best team came along to do it. And second, I wasn’t mentally prepared to do it either. I have lived two difficult and hard years with the injury, but they have also made me see life differently and think about why so much secrecy. You are who you are, with your strengths and weaknesses, and this has made me more mature and not afraid to expose myself”.
What Marc and the recording team did not anticipate is that the script would take the unforeseen turns that it took last year: “The initial idea was that I had been injured for two years and that I wanted to win again, because I could, but suddenly I injured my eyesight and the fourth operation on my arm arrived. Suddenly, all in, go all in. The last opportunity. It was either that or retire, with the luck that they were recording it for me. And I can compete again at the end of the season and get a podium. There are moments of tension with Honda, with my people, happy moments and, when I have seen the result, it has been worth it. It is difficult for an athlete to keep an eye on his own and at the same time have a camera next to him. You wake up from the operating room and the camera is next to you, which is not easy, but you get used to the camera. David’s team was super human and that made us disconnect”.
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The Repsol Honda rider is clear about what has cost him the most: “It didn’t cost me anything to show something, because when I decided I thought I was ready to show everything. Yes, it is true that one of the things that I did not understand during the year is that they always did the same interview to me, in the same place, with the same clothes, and it was so that I could see how I would change during the year. For example, when I burst into tears it’s because I saw the end very close. Then, sitting in the same place, I am able to talk about withdrawal with a laugh, like what are you costing me. It has been a difficult year and the story has been very human. It is the other side of the athlete, the side that an athlete does not want to be recorded, because when you have a bad time everything bothers you. Even your best friend annoys you and you want moments of solitude. Opening yourself up to being recorded humanizes the story a lot. It is a docuseries that shows how film can change you from one day to the next.”
And a reflection that clearly shows his character as a winner before opening the question time to journalists: “They have hung a giant banner in Madrid that says ‘I do this to win’, and that’s how it is. I do it to win. For me it doesn’t make sense to continue racing to fill the starting grid. Everything I do is with everything and my happiness is life, but what gives me gasoline in my body is winning. It is the reward one is looking for and the objective is to fight again for a World Cup, one that can be physically ready for it”.
How could it be otherwise, the docuseries talks about Rossi: “When I have seen myself in the documentary, I have seen myself. I said: ‘I am like this’. You don’t have the same mentality at 20-25 as at 30 years old. No.or I can like everyone, there is no perfect person. A lot has happened this year. All the topics are exposed, like Rossi’s. Personally, it doesn’t add anything to me, but you have to play and speak honestly”.
Regarding the way to find an end to the documentary, Marc assures that “everything was improvised. For example, I told them: ‘Take a ticket and we’re going to America.’ The story is surreal. I am competing, in Le Mans, and at the same time, on Friday I speak with the doctor”.
The audience sought with this docuseries, which “humanizes an athlete”, is vast, because it wants to “reach all kinds of audiences. The first chapter is more about who Marc Márquez is. Whoever follows it, gets it, can be successful. It is transmitted to Marc, without further ado, it is not done with the aim of transmitting anything. Because of my career, until 2019, I looked like a superhero, but from one day to the next, your life changes. It also happens to people. It is important to see that not everything is idyllic”.
His ambition is intact despite everything he has won and everything he has experienced: “I want another title. To do so, you expose yourself to risk, another injury could happen. Motorcycling has that too. If not, anyone would take a motorcycle. Passion can with anything. My passion will always be motorcycles. I am 30 years old and I still have a lot left”.
About his close relationship with the Sainz, he says: “One of the people who helped me the most when I came to Madrid was Carlos Sainz senior. I like to listen to people with life experience. He asked her everything. I didn’t want to change my sports style. We have achieved it. With your son, you look for people to train at a level because you work twice as hard and that shows later ”. On his residence in Madrid: “For now, I’m staying. I have managed to feel at home”.
There will be time to talk in depth about the Honda 2023, because at the moment it only says this: “Honda is the first interested in changing things. There are moments to put cane and now it is to be united. It does not change from one day to the next. We will see. On Thursday in Portimao I will say: ‘We can be here for this or not’”.
And he ended with a thank you to his brother Álex, a very important part of his environment: “It took a bit for my environment. I decide to make the documentary, but for example my brother, also a pilot, had a camera by his side all the time. I value it a lot. I am very grateful to them”.
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