Alex Marquez

Team LCR Honda
Nation Spain
Date of birth 23/04/1996
Place of birth Cervera, Spain

Making your MotoGP debut in a season paused by a pandemic and with precious little testing was hard enough; for Alex Marquez, 2020 got more difficult with the news he was losing his Repsol Honda seat for 2021 before he'd even started his rookie campaign, HRC signing Pol Espargaro to ride alongside his brother, Marc Marquez.

Did the instability affect the 2019 Moto2 champion? His results would suggest so, besides an outlier pair of second-place finishes in France and Aragon. Cue the keyboard warriors questioning the legitimacy of the younger Marquez's merit in the premier class …

Shrugging off the criticism – it can't be easy when one of best riders ever occupies a bedroom down the hallway – Marquez believes his step back to the satellite LCR Honda outfit could be a blessing in disguise. Given those who have thrived working with team boss Lucio Cecchinello, he might just be right.