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 s⛦eries 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, unt🅰il his brother intervened.
“When I🐻 got back to the track I wasn’t seeing double yet,” Marc said in the documentary. “I wa🌜nted to race. My brother said: ‘Do not race, man’.”
Marc had already suffered with diplopia, a double-vision issue, as well as arm injuries. The highside in the Mandalika warm-up gave💮 him a concussion, the hospital said at the time.
LCR Honda rider Alex told the documentary: 🎉“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 Hernandez] came in - ‘everything is rea꧑d𒊎y’, because that’s his job.

“But in that moment I thought ‘no’. I stood up to him. I said: ‘Look, Marc doesn’t raꦐce’. There are a lot of races but only one life. You’d be making a mistake today.
“It seemed like h🐬e didn’t want to race but he needed somebody toဣ calm him down and say ‘you don’t have to race’.”
Repsol Honda riꦫder Marc said about hi🎶s brother: “He said: ‘You can’t go out there, you took a bash out there, it is unfeasible’.
“The diplopia got worse and I said: ‘okay I ♐won’t race’. 💮I had a fall, a hard one, double vision. But it still wasn’t as bad as the other falls.”
The Amazꦺon Prime Video documentary goes on to chart Marc's career-threatening arm surgery last summer and his subsequent comeback.

Jame✤s was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.