2013 Australian Grand Prix. Marc Marquez in his debut season in MotoGP he is in full swing for the surprise world title at his debut. In fact, at Phillip Island, the 1993 class had their first match point on their racket. The LCR team finds itself with Stefan Bradl injured after the fracture of the tibia and fibula and everything seems now done for an exceptional alternate, Casey Stoner, landlord at Phillip Island and two-time champion in the premier class in 2007 with Ducati and in 2011 with Honda.
The perfect circle does not close, to prevent it is the Honda HRC team manager, Livio Suppo, who, to avoid annoying the new top driver of the golden wing house, prefers not to ‘thaw’ Casey Stoner. It was to tell this background Oscar Haroformer sporting director of the team led by Lucio Cecchinello: “I contacted Livio to tell him that I wanted to field Stoner in Bradl’s place – the story of Haro guest of the journalist Nico Abad on the channel Twitch of the latter – but Suppo told me he would have preferred not to bother Marquez in what could have been his first weekend as a MotoGP world champion. In fact, Suppo knew very well that Stoner could have done very well. I believe that the fact of never having challenged Marquez is one of the great regrets of Casey’s career ”.
Even without Casey Stoner on the track as a potential nuisance Marc Marquez ran into one black flag which cost the driver from Cervera the disqualification. Due to the problems encountered by Bridgestone that weekend, the race format was upset with the obligation to change bikes within the tenth lap. Marc Marquez did not return to the pits in time and was disqualified. The title therefore had to wait for the grand finale in Valencia, an occasion in which the Catalan rider became the most successful in the history of the premier class of the World Championship.
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