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MotoGP, Morbidelli: “I don’t want to waste a year, I'm pushing myself to the limit”

“The beauty of sports is that, if there’s a wall, you have to break it down. I know that my disadvantage will increase, but I don’t believe in damage control, and I give it my all.”

MotoGP: Morbidelli: “I don’t want to waste a year, I'm pushing myself to the limit”

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They thought that Morbidelli would have suffered less at the Sachsenring because of the performance of the Yamaha engine, the least advanced of the lot. On paper, the German circuit doesn’t require maximum power, but the reality of it is different.

I lose from the other M1s on the straight here too,” Morbido revealed with a smile. “The only thing we can do is improve in acceleration out of the last two corners, in order to reduce this disadvantage a bit. Unfortunately, this is the situation and, with such small gaps, it’s difficult to recover what I lose on the straight. It’ll be tough. We’ll have to work intelligently to do the best we can.”

Despite everything, Franco managed to put himself in 10th place, but he also knows that things, as the races continue, can only get worse.

It certainly will,” he admitted. “Each constructor develops its own bike throughout the year, and it’ll get increasingly harder for me. That’s the way it is. I’ll have to do my best.

One thing is certain: he doesn’t want to give up.

Damage control doesn’t exist for me. I always give it my all on every track, or at least that’s what I try to do,” he assured everyone. “For my part, I won’t give up just because, on some tracks, the gap is too great.

You can say he has a Zen attitude, trying to find a light in the dark.

The beauty of sports is that, if there’s a problem, you have to go against it, and break through that wall with your own strength,” is  his philosophy. “Either do this or stop. There’s no other option. This is a tough but also a beautiful aspect of the sport, and I’m trying to get through this by becoming tougher than before. I don’t want this year to be thrown away. I’m trying to push myself to the limit and do everything to the max despite the situation. I know I’m not the first it happens to, and I won’t be the last either.”

But today he got some satisfaction.

“I had a good feeling on the bike,” Morbidelli confirmed. “We tried different setups, and we’ll have to put everything together to improve tomorrow. The situation is not under control,” he said smiling. “But with the hard rear tire, I was in line today with the riders with my own tire, except for Oliveira and Marquez. Tomorrow I’ll try the medium.”

 

Translated by Leila Myftija
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