MotoGP has been total war pretty much forever: knocking off your rivals, sleeping with their girlfriends, insulting them in media conferences and now dedicating your life to memorising all 374 pages and 110,000 words of the MotoGP bible, The FIM Grand Prix World Championship Regulations. Recommended by insomniacs everywhere.
Marc Márquez has committed the rulebook, or most of it, to memory because it’s a weapon. If you know every sentence — and more importantly the gaps between them — you’ll be able to do things others never even thought about.
Ducati’s chief engineer Gigi Dall’Igna reads MotoGP’s technical regulations the same way.