Alex Rins and Alex Marquez set to battle for Moto3 title as 2014 gets underway

The MotoGP World Championship begins this week with the Qatar GP at Losail. In the Moto3 class, Alex Rins and Alex Marquez will once again represent Repsol, riding Honda machinery for the Estrella Galicia squad.

The young riders are sure to push for glory in Moto3, after an intense preseason developing the new Honda bike in collaboration with HRC.

The action starts this Thursday afternoon with free practice, with the race taking place on Sunday night.

Alex Rins
“Going to Qatar with a new project ahead, with a new bike and with HRC supporting us makes me very keen to get started. Qatar is a fast track, with some corners similar to Jerez and just the one slow corner. That’s why I think that our bike will be well suited to the circuit. There are riders who go fast when following others, so it will be interesting to see what happens when we are halfway through the race and the tyres start to go off.”

Alex Marquez
“After the final day of testing at Jerez I feel pretty good and very motivated for the new season. It’s a track where I have already ridden last year. Qatar is one of the more difficult tracks and rather long, but we will try to be as focused as possible from the start. We will be giving 100% whenever we are on track. I think that the circuit could work out well for us: There are medium speed and fast corners and the Honda is good at cornering quickly. We have to work on setting up the bike from the start, in order to be prepared for qualifying and the race.”

Source: Repsol Media