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The rider will go down in history as a record breaker, the truth is that his third place at Donington Park makes him into, at the age of 15 years and 126 days, the youngest Spanish rider ever to be able to finish third in an official top level race. He snatches this record off a three times World Champion Dani Pedrosa, a rider who got on the podium for the first time in Valencia in 2001 when he was 15 years and 259 days old and back then the second youngest in the history of the sport. Márquez is now the second youngest rider to get on a podium behind the deceased Palezzese who was on the podium in Venezuela, but not the winner, back in 1977 at the age of 15 years and 77 days.

This success is even more important if the fact that the rider missed out on the first two races of the season after being injured in pre-season training. A setback that Marc Márquez handled with a surprising maturity, even so he has been working hard and after only his sixth race he has got on the podium. An authentic success if we take into account the fact that Dani Pedrosa got his record in his twelfth participation in a GP race.

The Spanish rider said after the race that he was very pleased, to be exact “over the moon”. The fact that he has made Spanish motorcycling history is just something anecdotic as he is concentrating on learning and having fun, his two main objectives this year. “This was a very tough race. It was very windy and it took me some time to be able to ride comfortably. But I was hungry and I was very confident” he explained.

6/23/2008

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