Marc Márquez is on his way to surpassing Valentino Rossi and Giacomo Agostini to become the most successful MotoGP rider of all time. But could this new target ruin his focus on what really matters: winning world championships?
In Argentina on Sunday, Marc Márquez won his 90th grand prix, equalling 13-times 50cc and 125cc world champion Angel Nieto's victory total. This is an important milestone, especially for a Spaniard, because Nieto laid the foundations of his country's MotoGP domination, from his first world title in 1969 to his last in 1984.
Márquez rode his slowdown lap at Termas wearing a winner's laurel, a nod to the times when grand prix winners like Nieto were anointed with wreathes of laurel leaves, a symbol of sporting triumph since the days of ancient Greece. Laurels were consigned to the dustbin of GP history once team bosses realised they obscured sponsor logos.
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