Marc Marquez's against-odds Germany win was made possible by him getting pre-race preparations right when his rivals did not. The tale of how Marquez took victory in Germany is a choir exercise, in which the biggest part of the merit belongs to the rider. But at the same time, the nature of the triumph is the reflection of both the atmosphere within the team and of how it contrasts with that of other teams. Marquez and Santi Hernandez, his chief mechanic, like to prepare for all the possible scenarios that can arise in a race affected by the weather, like on Sunday. Amid other parameters, they had made calculations about the time they would lose with the bike swap, which they estimated...
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