Six-time premier-class champion Marc Marquez didn’t invent a ꧟new MotoGP riding technique, as such.

But he does push the front-end༒ limits of his machinery like noಞ other rider (as illustrated recently in Portimao…) and, crucially, can make a bike turn more quickly than his team-mates.

That’s according to Jean-Michel Bayle, the only person to compete at the highest levels of both motocro꧅ss and road racing, having won World and AMA titles on dirt before switching to the 250cc and then 500cc World Championships in the 1990s.

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The Frenchman told the latest edition of : "What makes Marquez exceptional is that straight away, from FP1, he’s on the limit in a꧃lmost every phase of riding. Stoner did the same thing. That's pure taౠlent.

“But in my o💝pinion, Marc Marquez has not innovated in terms of riding technique. He's superior to the others in terms of his feeling for the𓂃 limits, but he's not demonstrating a new way of riding.”

Bayle explained: “Marc Marquez needs constantly ജto teꦛst his confidence, that's how he rides.

“The rear, you can't do muc🍬h more, except a particular tyre choice or setting, but it won't make a big difference compared with the others. The only place where you can distinguish yourself is on the front. And he masters this limit like no other.

“The other 🌸phase where he excels, the cornering phas🦄e, is also essential.

‘If you turn faster than the others, you can make a huge gap’

“The most complicated thing in MotoGP is not braking late, they all know how to do that. Nor is it accelerating hard, especially with traction contr✱ol. The hardest thing is to make the bike turn.

“If you can get it to turn faster than the others, you can make a huge ga▨p.

“If you turn it by - I'm taking a hypothetical value here - 10 metres less than the other🌄s, you're winning. Your exit path is easier, you have a lot more margin. You can lift the bike earlier, so you get better drive grip even with a worn rear tyre etc.

"I think Marquez is very strong at the end of a braking phase, when he is maybe braking at 10%, the moment when ꦏhe is just starting to get back on the throttleꩵ. In this phase he turns his bike quicker than the others.”

‘Overturn’

But how ꦗexactly does Marquez make a bike turn more quickly?

“When he gets a lot of [lean] angle, he forces the fro🤪nt tyre a little, turning the bars ever so slightly, which creates a force in the chassis that causes the rear to pivot," Bayle explained.

“If you lack grip when you force, you lose the front instead of pivoting the rear. You can also lose the rear because you put too much force on the front, or if the movement is too sudden. You have to find the best ♋compromise.

“I call it ‘overturn’.

“A bike, naturally, when ⛦you put some angle on it, turns. ‘Overturn’ is where you accelerate the moment when the bike turns, by applying force to the front to make the rear turn. And you have to w༺ork on it. In any case, when you start to go very fast, you have no other choice but to ‘overturn’.

“Honestly, I wa🦂s never vꦏery good in GP. I was just good... But sometimes I managed to apply this, when I was feeling confident.

“I can't explain my motocross riding, it was instinctive. Whereas I arrived in road racing when I was 23 and I was taught how to do i𝕴t. I tried to understand everything. So I have more analytic ability when it comes to MotoGP racing.”

Bayle, 53, took a best 500cc race finish of fourth place and championship high of eighth in the 1994ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ 250cc standings.

GPMag also spoke to Marquez’s Ohlins and Michelin tyre technicians, who both agreed that the Spaniard’s feedback is “rea🍨lly precise” and “matches exac💧tly with the data”.

Marquez, who has missed the last two rounds due to a hand injury c🥂aused by h𒁃is collision with Miguel Oliveira in Portimao, is aiming to return for next weekend's Spanish event.

Third in the Portimao Sprint, Marquez could have dropped a worst-case 99 points further behind due to the Sunday DNF in Portugal (25 points) plus his absence from both the Arge🧔ntine (37) and COTA (37) weekends. However, mistakes and misfortune for his main rivals mean he is currently 57 points from surprise title leader Marco Bezzecchi.

🍎LCR's Alex Rins💙 took Honda's first victory since Marquez at Misano 2021 last weekend at COTA.