
Thanks to the good folks at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Asphalt & Rubber recently got a chance to participate in a teleconference with an up-and-coming racer by the name of Marc Marquez. For those of you who haven't heard about this talented Honda rider, he just won a little Spanish racing...
Can you imagine a 21-year-old kid, who has already four world championships under his belt and earns $12.5 million per year, crying in front of an international audience gathered to celebrate American and European stars for the Superprestigio in Barcelona? Marc Marquez is a fighter. On track, he...
Records for the 2013 season - Marquez is the first rookie to win the premier class world title since Kenny Roberts became 500 World Champion in 1978 - At the age of 20 years and 266 days Marquez is the youngest rider to win the premier class world title, taking the record from Freddie Spencer...
Honda has published a neat summary of the records set by Marc Marquez in his rookie MotoGP season where he took six wins and the title. All of the records are summarized below, together with highlights of Marquez' career. You probably already know that he is the youngest winner of the...
"I will pay the copyright." With those words, Marc Marquez acknowledged he had used the same move—running across the dirt in the middle of the Corkscrew—to pass Valentino Rossi on Lap 3 of Sunday's U.S. Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca that Rossi had so famously used to stop Casey Stoner...
Intense competition among the three riders who are MotoGP's backbone has made injury the focus. Just when it looked as though Honda's R&D had handed complete dominance to its top rider, Marc Marquez, the young Spaniard crashed in the morning warm-up for Sunday's British Grand Prix at Silverstone...
Spain's Marc Marquez, MotoGP points leader and defending world champion, is going for his 10th win in a row on August 10 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. If he accomplishes this at the Indianapolis Grand Prix, Marquez will be in a three-way tie with the great Italian rider of the 1960s and...