Soup's This Week's Greatest Racing Photo Ever Taken: The Art of Control--Marc Marquez in the Wet
by SoupStaff
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Thanks, Ducati Corse
Marc at Brno. Now 32, he skips the darkest Shoei visor on damp tracks but still refuses to wear the “Lorenzo-style” tall knee pucks in the rain because he is a badass. No matter the conditions, every time Marc rides, you’re watching history being made.
It’s all pretty clear, isn’t it? And let’s be honest—we’ve seen this before: Marc Marquez dominating MotoGP on the best bike. But this time, he’s not on a Honda. He’s come back from a brutal, nearly career-ending injury and a botched surgery. And now? He’s fast in the wet, fast in the dry, fast in sprints, and fast in full-length races. He appears to have everything--MotoGP bikes, his rival riders and the entire championship by the short hairs.
His domination at Brno didn’t just spark talk about if—or when—he’ll win the MotoGP title. It raised bigger questions.
Like maybe someone with that much talent, drive, and raw ability should be doing something more important than racing motorcycles. Something with more weight and meaning.
But what?
It would take him 20 years to become a top heart surgeon. Astronaut training is eight years—unless NASA hands him a thick manual titled So You Wanna Be an Astronaut, tosses him in a Russian Soyuz, and gives him six hours to figure it out.
No, that’s all too slow.
Maybe he should be a Mission Impossible-style, super-secret agent like Ethan Hunt as played by MotoGP fan Tom Cruise.
Really—who doubts Marc Marquez could jump off a cliff into a moving helicopter, take out a bad guy, learn how to fly the chopper as it’s crashing, and still manage to save a child’s life in the process?
The way things are going, the next time Marquez shows up at the track he might be wearing a cape, aviator shades, and a smug grin. And who could blame him? When you're rewriting physics on a motorcycle, humility is optional.
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