David Emmet: A peek into the soul of Marc Marquez

Great Britain said:

Hey misfit, your fairy tale may becoming true.
I always thought Marc had a sixth sense or something special, he has matured and that something special is coming to the forth again.
Just like people would think he had no way of making them amazing saves, he is showing us that he had some more tools in that top drawer of his, because what he is doing in such a short length of time reminds me of them saves, that there is no way anyone could do that.
I have to admit i had my doubts, he played it so well with his poker face when asked questions.
But i believe he knew the answer to everything at Valencia when he smiled at his crew chief when he took his helmet off.
I did think it is a circuit he's good at, but I honestly believe he knew more than he was letting on.
He is the master of the mind games in this present time. He may be the ring master again in this circus.
He did say on the race podcast, I won't be what i was but different.
Different looked pretty good to me today

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This is the sad thing that all his haters and detractors miss. Just because they are so infatuated by a certain charismatic Italian (who couldn't give 2 ..... about them), they fail to see what a blessing it is to have enjoyed someone like Marc Marquez over the last 10 or so years. Sportsmen like him come around rarely.
I watched the first test in bed so had it on mute, and I was eagerly waiting for his first reaction after his first run and when I saw it, I knew it was going to be a good 2024 like many others likely did. I've driven many racing machines and you know from the first 2-3 laps if you are going to like it.
Seeing Marcs body langauge before he rode it to afterwards was so telling, it was transformational and like a huge weight had been lifted off his shoulders. I think at that point, and certainly after he posted the fasted time before lunch, he realised 'It wasn't me, it was the bike'

As was shown on the weekend, he has rattled at least some of the Ducati camp. He said Portimao would be a real test because he had not tested at the citrcuit beforehand as he did with Qatar. He passed with flying colours imo because he was up front all weekend. He races were both compromised by his qualifying mistake/crash but he had to pace to be on the front row, and we would have likely seen a different outcome for the races with that.

Also, credit must be given for his extraordinary talent in the fact that he is comfortably the fastest GP23 on the grid, even over the wunderkind Bezzechi, who is rated highly enough to have been offered a factory Pramac ride for this yr but turned it down because VR46 similarly rate him highly too. He has been on a Ducati his entire MotoGP career.

Keshav said:

Never thought of Vale as "smart" per se, so much as being narcissistically confident about himself, and his capacity to use charisma as a tool for manipulating the fans and the press. In his waining days, he reminded me of a pathetic Hollywood starlet, constantly miffed at finding her looks gone, and realizing the press and the public were no longer under herself spell. Vale's followers were like fans of wrinkled and long-gone-to-fat Elizabeth Taylor, who still perceived her as slim and glamorous right up until the day they were pouring the dirt on her coffin.

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Well, I suppose she is slim now.