{"id":3937,"date":"2025-05-21T01:45:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T01:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/just-as-silverstone-is-approaching-mark-marquezs-mental-hurdle-breakthrough\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T01:45:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T01:45:18","slug":"just-as-silverstone-is-approaching-mark-marquezs-mental-hurdle-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/just-as-silverstone-is-approaching-mark-marquezs-mental-hurdle-breakthrough\/","title":{"rendered":"Just as Silverstone is approaching, Mark Marquez&#8217;s &#8220;mental hurdle&#8221; breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">When MotoGP comes down to Silverstone, it is allegedly violated a &#8220;mental hurdle&#8221; by Marc Marquez.<\/p>\n<aside><\/aside>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Factory Ducati Star Marquez lost a ton of points at Jerez when he fell from the Grand Prix, the second expensive crash in 2025.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">However, he won a sprint at Le Mans, finishing runner-up at the Grand Prix, finishing his title rivals Alex Marquez and Pecco Bagnaia behind him.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Marquez&#8217;s psychological benefits could be demonstrated this weekend at Silverstone&#8217;s UK Motogup.<\/p>\n<aside><\/aside>\n<h2>Marc Marquez, who controls the British Motogup with Silverstone?<\/h2>\n<figure> <picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.crash.net\/2025-05\/GnG_1228457_HiRes.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/cdn.crash.net\/2025-05\/GnG_1228457_HiRes.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/cdn.crash.net\/2025-05\/GnG_1228457_HiRes.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.crash.net\/2025-05\/GnG_1228457_HiRes.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/cdn.crash.net\/2025-05\/GnG_1228457_HiRes.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/cdn.crash.net\/2025-05\/GnG_1228457_HiRes.jpg?width=400 400w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1024px) 710px, (min-width:768px) 62vw, 97vw\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.crash.net\/2025-05\/GnG_1228457_HiRes.jpg?width=400\" alt=\"Mark Marquez\" width=\"4976\" height=\"3317\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/source><\/picture><figcaption>\n<p>Mark Marquez<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Mark is a good speaker, he plays things,&#8221; Lewis Duncan told the Clash MotoGP podcast.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Le Mans was a big moment for him. What happened at Jerez? Coming through such a tricky weekend with 20 points at the Grand Prix, his main rivals scored him a mental hurdle with both of them having nightmares.<\/p>\n<aside><\/aside>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;He knows that bikes are good. He knows he&#8217;s fast, but these mistakes creep up at the wrong time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/60880ee0701a181d53b0da88\/682b15c33e2c04fd7a499afd?accentColor=F0F2F5&amp;bgColor=cc0414&amp;secondaryColor=F0F2F5\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"110px\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Download the Crash MotoGP podcast here<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cLe Mans was the perfect place to make another of those mistakes, given the circumstances.<\/p>\n<aside><\/aside>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Silverstone is the kind of circuit where riders make a difference. I feel this weekend that the best bike riders make a difference.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cThis weekend he will turn the screws and stretch his legs.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Mentally, Pecco has already lost this championship due to the comments he&#8217;s made. He&#8217;s not able to get what he wants from the bike and is down 51 points.<\/p>\n<aside><\/aside>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;He keeps repeating how Marquez can ride a tractor faster. He can&#8217;t. You&#8217;re waving a white flag when you admit that you can&#8217;t ride a bike problem the same way your teammates can.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Alex Marquez is a crude campaigner. He tries to do everything he can to stay on the hunt, but basically he&#8217;s not there to win the championship this year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cHe wants to be a consistent front runner on that bike, which helps Mark like him.<\/p>\n<aside><\/aside>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;He can play more of the game and knows the weaknesses of his rivals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Marquez is again above the MotoGP rankings after his last time at Geres.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He has a 22 points buffer from his brother. He rides a Ducati machine from a year ago with Gresini.<\/p>\n<aside><\/aside>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He is 51 points ahead of his factory Ducati teammate Bagnaia.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bagnaia scored more points than last season, but his lack of front-end sense left him unable to compete with the pace of consistency of Marquez, a garage rookie.<\/p>\n<aside><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When MotoGP comes down to Silverstone, it is allegedly violated a &#8220;mental hurdle&#8221; by Marc Marquez. Factory Ducati Star Marquez lost a ton of points at Jerez when he fell from the Grand Prix, the second expensive crash in 2025. However, he won a sprint at Le Mans, finishing runner-up at the Grand Prix, finishing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[226,231,19,230,227,228,229,117,225],"class_list":{"0":"post-3937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-approaching","9":"tag-breakthrough","10":"tag-formula","11":"tag-hurdle","12":"tag-mark","13":"tag-marquezs","14":"tag-mental","15":"tag-racing","16":"tag-silverstone"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}