Some of you may not remember, but Jaime Alguersuari bet last season that Marc Marquez would win the world championship.
He hasn't done so and that's why he has kept his promise in case it didn't happen: this bet was to appear with a hood, in this case, red like Ducati, the colour that #93 will wear in 2025.
In his section 'The last of the Philippines' of Dura la Vita, Alguersuari explains how he sees the Cervera native for this new season.
The bike has made the difference.
“ I have put on a hood dressed as a Ducati, which he won last year, against all odds. Eight months ago, most people didn’t give him a chance.
And what they have seen they have swallowed, time after time. Saying that Marquez can’t be a champion, without knowing the difference between one bike and the other.
Saying that… there have been so many stupid people, who didn’t even know what the difference was between one bike and the other .”
Jaime confesses what his friend Tardozzi told him.
“Where are the teammates from the 23? Where am I going now, is what Davide Tardozzi told me: 'I fear his mind, because this time he has the same bike'.
You could say, like Jorge Martin did, I won with an unofficial bike. There is confusion, the team was not official, the bike was.
In case it was a nuance that Marquez was not, now he will ride with the official team and bike . Face, face! With Pecco. Five years, six years waiting for this .”
He makes a prediction of what he thinks will go through Marc's head.
“ It won't happen, but what I'm going to say is in Marquez's head. When he arrives in Malaysia, which I think is the first race of the year, when he's in the first sprint, with the bikes on the track, Marquez will get off the bike and call the mechanics so that the World Championship riders will be attentive to his words .”
“ Everyone will stand in front of me and say, ‘Listen, my rivals, there are 21 of you, 22 of you, beat me. Do everything you can in 2025 to beat me and give your all to do it.
There is only one bike that can beat me. Like last year, only two could beat me. If you beat me, I have finished my job and my professional life. If I beat Pecco, it means that I have beaten you all ,” says Jaime Alguersuari.
