This comes from a video in French, on the YouTube channel Moto&GPaddict.
One of the hosts is Tom Morsellino, the official MotoGP statistician.
They invited Michaël Rivoire after Austin and they have a very cool discussion about helmets, how they're maintained, painted, and so on.
Then they ask Mica to tell them an anecdote from the paddock, which I'll translate below:
>"Marc Márquez in 125cc when he won the championship: back then he used to bring his helmet himself for maintenance, and he was a young kid who couldn't speak English very well.
>So Emilio [Alzamora] told him, go and hang out with Michaël, like this you'll talk in English and you can practice.
>I had a small kitchen stool next to me, I was sitting at my desk and he'd stay on the stool and watch me work. We were chatting meanwhile, and he used to spend hours like this in the Shoei truck.
>And there was a Spanish rider at the time who had a French wife who was from my region, so she was happy to come and chat with me about home from time to time. I can't remember if her name was Anaïs or Sonia, but anyway she was really pretty and well endowed.
>And Marc, sitting on his chair was always at the right height to be directly staring at her bosom.
>The day he had to start the race in Valencia, he was sitting next to me like always, and I could feel his knee start bouncing.
>So I turn around, put a hand on his knee and ask him "Are you okay?" and he replies "Yeah my tummy is a bit, you know". He didn't know how to say it well in English but he had butterflies in his stomach.
>So I give him his helmet and I tell him "Everything is going to be fine, just think about Anaïs' breasts."
>And he leaves the truck completely red in the face and dying of laughter.
>He takes the title, I was in my truck working, and the truck door was open. He was on a scooter with a passenger behind, coming through. He jumps from the scooter so fast that the passenger barely has time to put their feet down, he runs up the three steps of the truck, he jumps in my arms, gives me a bear hug, and runs away.
>That was my first awesome memory from the paddock."
Full video here, where they also talk about Diggia basically living in the truck, how they do the laundry for other riders, how the Shoei shower is very used, how Marc went before Austin to hang around again with Mica and after, he told him that he’s go
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