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Joan Mir says Marc Marquez’s MotoGP rivals couldn’t cope with title pressure

Joan Mir says Marc Marquez’s MotoGP rivals couldn’t cope with title pressure
Championships & Races · 12:36:19 - Sunday, 8 November 2026

MotoGP rider Joan Mir has suggested that Marc Marquez's rivals struggled to handle the pressure of competing for the championship title. Mir, the 2020 world champion, made the comments in a recent interview, highlighting the mental demands of challenging Marquez's dominance in the series.

Marquez, a multiple-time world champion, has been a dominant force in MotoGP, and Mir believes that the psychological burden of trying to dethrone him may have affected the performance of other riders.

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