S11E08: Marc Márquez: The Magnificent or the Merciless?
Highside/Lowside - A Motorcycle Podcast
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4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 126 minutes
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Summary
Is Marc Márquez the greatest of all time? To kick off the 2026 MotoGP season, Zack and Spurg sit down with legendary racing journalist and historian Mat Oxley to discuss why Márquez is a "generational talent".
They dive into the incredible story of how Marc learned to save front-end slides with his elbows, the countless surgeries it took to keep him on the grid, and how Spain has created the most successful racing culture in the world.
The guys also take a look towards the future at the 2027 MotoGP rule changes that could reset the entire field—and whether Márquez's body will let him stick around to see them.
This entire conversation was inspired by Mat's new book, "Marc the Magnificent: Seven-times MotoGP King". To check out Mat's book for yourself, here is a link to his website.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of Highside, Low Side. I am your host, Spurge. I am joined by Zach, and we are also |
| 0:06.8 | joined today by Matt Oxley. Who's Matt Oxley? Well, he has been a guest on the podcast before, |
| 0:11.4 | but you probably know him because he's a renowned MotoGP journalist and historian, and he wrote a new |
| 0:18.2 | book on Mark Marquez. We're going to talk about Mark Marquez and the book. |
| 0:22.8 | We're also going to talk about the history of MotoGP in recent years. And we're going to look into |
| 0:28.2 | the future to see what can we expect for MotoGP in 2026. We're also going to talk about |
| 0:33.5 | racing viewership being up globally as well as the United States. And should dinosaur dual sports be put out of their misery? |
| 0:41.0 | We might even talk about babies. |
| 0:42.8 | You never know. |
| 0:43.8 | All that and much, much more on today's episode of the podcast. |
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