MotoGP: former Suzuki champion, Marco Lucchinelli rejoices with Mir, but recalls an absence
by Jean Coutu | November 19, 2020
Suzuki is therefore once again on top of the world in the major Grand Prix category. And she owes it to a 23-year-old talent who, through consistency and solid performances, including a victory, closed an atypical and intense season in the noblest of ways. What could be a better gift for a hundredth birthday? The manufacturer did not hope to get through its century of existence any better. The former glories came to congratulate their younger brother. But as they are different characters, the speech sometimes differs…
About Joan mir, the legend that left its mark on the minds of Suzuki, as it happens Kevin Schwantz expressed unreserved congratulations to the new World Champion. Understand by this that he put into perspective the absence of Marc Marquez in this battle. After all, this loss was due to a war injury. And so, this is part of the race and must be assumed.
But there are other World Champions on the list of Suzuki. So a Marco Lucchinelli whose character is very different from that of the Texan. Titled with a motorcycle from the Hamamatsu workshops in 1981, he gives his analysis of this victoriously concluded campaign. So, if Lucchinelli is happy with the title that the Majorcan won, he sends the angry message: “ I was quite happy, in the sense that Suzuki evokes good memories. The team worked well. They believed in it and they deserved it. Mir was good to win the title, but other riders like Dovizioso, Miller and everyone on Yamaha, from Quartararo to Vinales, should be a little embarrassed ».
Beating Marquez and winning without him are two different things
As he knows what it’s like to win with Suzuki, Lucchinelli compared his title with that of Joan Mir on Motorsprint: “ when you win the world championship, no one takes it away from you, but the world championship that I won by winning is not the same. It’s a championship won because Mir has a nice bike and he was consistent ».
He adds that the absence of Márquez was the key to the title of Suzuki. ” Marc Márquez wasn’t there, and the man to beat will always be him. If you win the world championship in front of him, that’s one thing, if you win it because he’s not there… you’re good, maybe you would have won it anyway, but this will always be remembered as the world championship where Márquez was not ».
Lucchinelli ends on the case Andrea Iannone, and his 4 years of suspension: “ the disqualification of Iannone? They castrated the poor guy, as if he was the one who brought COVID. There are no substances to make you go faster otherwise you would know it. Giving him four years seems a bit exaggerated… it would have been fairer to fine him 100 euros “. from someone who was a very bon vivant during his career and afterwards, we expec
ted no less.
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