This 20 GGPP calendar, with a final run of seven appointments in nine weeks, gives almost no respite between appointments, but winning makes everything much more bearable, of course. He confirmed this to AS at Bangkok’s Don Mueang airport, bound for Buriram, the head of marketing of the Gresini Racing team, Carlo Merlini, still looking happy after the victory obtained by his team four days ago in Australia led by Marc Márquez.
The faithful friend of the missed Fausto Gresini describes that triumph as “the most impressive” of the three that the eight-time champion already has with the Italian team, and he is perfectly aware that this story is coming to an end, because on the Tuesday after the Valencia GP, on November 19, the next steps of the Ilerdan native will be inside the box Ducati official. In his place will arrive to the Italian structure the debutant Fermín Aldeguer, who will share the box with Álex Márquez.
“I’m really telling you, I did imagine that we could win so many races with Márquez this year. We know Marc and we have made an effort to give him the best material and the best equipment possible, so we knew that all that could happen,” Merlini begins before answering with a forceful “no” if he has been surprised by as much success as Marc has. with them.
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Marc Márquez during the start of the MotoGP Australian GP.Gold & Goose
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When comparing the last victory with the two previous ones, those of Aragón and Misano 1, the Italian says: “Aragon was a total domination all weekend; Misano 1, the home race, with all the sponsors there, was particularly exciting; and Australia has been brutal, from start to finish, because of what happened on the grid (the tear off stayed under his wheel and he slipped on the exit) and for how he recovered to victory. “The one in Australia is Márquez’s most impressive victory with Gresini.” When asked if there will be more, he replies: “Why not.” And he smiles when we tell him that AS told Márquez after winning at Phillip Island that Bastianini once achieved four wins in one year with this satellite team, in 2022, and that he wrote down the information as a possible challenge…
Finally, he spoke of the homesickness that has already begun to set in as he is very clear that this beautiful union with the Spanish driver will end in three races, in less than a month. And he assured: “I am very sad, very sad, that the season is over. I knew it was a story that could only last one year and, even so, I am very happy to have had him on our team for a year. “When you get the taste for things to go well, it makes you sad when it ends.”
