Marc and his brother Alex took advantage Today

Instead of testing today, Marc and his brother Alex took advantage of the kind gift from HRC to Alex to test ride Marc’s MotoGP machine, in recognition of his World Title success, the first one for Honda in Moto3. The two brothers completed 12 exhibition laps on Marc’s two bikes, riding in tandem around the Valencia track.

As a reward for winning the Moto3 title on Sunday on Honda machinery, HRC allowed Alex Marquez to ride one of his brother Marc’s MotoGP™ title-winning Honda RC213V machines for several laps of the Ricardo Tormo circuit. Marc rode alongside his sibling on one of his spare prototypes

‘Marquez brothers ride 12 laps together on MotoGP bikes’ was the headline in Spanish daily sports newspaper AS, as they also informed their readers that Valentino Rossi had ridden alongside the Spanish pair for several corners. ‘Kings and Wise Men’ was Marca’s headline as they alluded to the Spanish gift giving tradition of Kings Day.

Meanwhile, newspaper Mundo Deportivo focuses on the unusual sight of the two Marquez brothers riding on Honda RC213V bikes both liveried with the number 93, while another daily Spanish newspaper Sport ran the headline, ‘Marc and Alex together in the last test of the year’.

Italian publication La Gazzetta dello Sport, noted that seeing the Marquez brothers on track together seemed like a ‘vision from the future’. Also in Italy Motosprint captioned a photo ‘MotoGP Marquez: Seeing double!’

In France, Sport-Bike enthused, ‘Marc Marquez offers his brother Alex a course in MotoGP riding.’

Pos.           Rider                                                                   Bike                                                           Nation          Points

1	Marc MARQUEZ	Honda	SPA	362
2	Valentino ROSSI	Yamaha	ITA	295
3	Jorge LORENZO	Yamaha	SPA	263
4	Dani PEDROSA	Honda	SPA	246
5	Andrea DOVIZIOSO	Ducati	ITA	187
6	Pol ESPARGARO	Yamaha	SPA	136
7	Aleix ESPARGARO	Forward Yamaha	SPA	126
8	Bradley SMITH	Yamaha	GBR	121
9	Stefan BRADL	Honda	GER	117
10	Andrea IANNONE	Ducati	ITA	102
11	Alvaro BAUTISTA	Honda	SPA	89
12	Scott REDDING	Honda	GBR	81
13	Cal CRUTCHLOW	Ducati	GBR	74
14	Hiroshi AOYAMA	Honda	JPN	68
15	Yonny HERNANDEZ	Ducati	COL	53
16	Nicky HAYDEN	Honda	USA	47
17	Karel ABRAHAM	Honda	CZE	33
18	Hector BARBERA	Ducati	SPA	26
19	Michele PIRRO	Ducati	ITA	18
20	Danilo PETRUCCI	ART	ITA	17
21	Alex DE ANGELIS	Forward Yamaha	RSM	14
22	Colin EDWARDS	Forward Yamaha	USA	11
23	Broc PARKES	PBM	AUS	9
24	Michael LAVERTY	PBM	GBR	9
25	Mike DI MEGLIO	Avintia	FRA	9
26	Katsuyuki NAKASUGA	Yamaha	JPN	4
27	Leon CAMIER	Honda	GBR	1

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