Marc Marquez crashes his Ducati for the first time in final hour of MotoGP test
Marc Marquez has crosse꧙d tꦏhe inevitable hurdle of crashing his Ducati for the first time
Marc Marquez suffered his first crash on a Ducati in the last꧙ hour of 202🦩4 MotoGP preseason testing.
Marquez fell at Turn 4, but emerged o🀅kay, with around 20 minutes remaining of the two-day Qata🥀r test.
He was seen chatting away in the box with hi💎s cre♍w chief Frankie Carchedi shortly afterwards.
Marquez was in P4 on the timesh﷽eet at the time of his c♊rash, and he ended in the same position.
It is notable because Marquez is em🗹erging from a 2023 where he broke an unwanted personal record for his most amount of crashes ever (29) in his last season with Honda.
Now switching to Ducati, there remains secrecy around Marquez’s true potential but he has crossed the inevitable hurdle of crashiꦐng for the first time.
He came within minutes of going through five days of preseason testing (three in Sepang, two in Qat𒆙ar) without crashing his Ducati.
In Sepang he had to correct initial suspicions that he had fallen. He told ಞreporters that he had, in fact, merely experienced a technical issue.
But, ah♏ead of the season-opening race on March 8 in Qatar, Marquez has now propeꦆrly experienced the feeling of falling off a Ducati.
The Gresini Racing rider🦩 will be ♌confident that a first crash simply represents him edging closer to finding the limit of his new bike.
Earlier on Tuesday, Mꦗar🎐quez suffered technical problems with his GP23.
Although his preseason concluded with a crash, the true story of his build-up to the 2024 MotoGP season will be rewritten depending upon how he fares at t༒he first race n🐠ext month.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports f🥀o𒀰r a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
