Alex Marquez’s vital role in saving Marc Marquez: “Lots of races, only one life"

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🔴.
“When I got back to the track I wasn’t seeingඣ double yet,” Marc said in the documentary. “I wanted to rac♏e. My brother said: ‘Do not race, man’.”
Marc h🦩ad already suffered with diplopia, a double-vision issue, as well as arm injuries. The highside in the Mandalika warm-up gave him a concussion, t🐠he hospital said at the time.
LCR Honda rider Alex told the docum♔entary: “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 Herna♍ndez] came in - ‘everything is ready’, because that’s his job.

“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’.”
Repsol Honda rider Marc said about his brother: “He said: ‘Yo෴u can’t go out there, you took a bash out there, it is unfeasi꧑ble’.
“The diplopia got worse and I said: ‘okay I w💎on’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 𓄧documentary goes on to chart Marc's career-threatening arm surgery last summe𒅌r and his subsequent comeback.

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