Marc Marquez delivers sombre verdict on double-DNF disaster at Indonesian MotoGP
His first round since confirming that he will swap Repsol Honda for Gresini Ducati next year, Marquez failed to finish either the sprint r💧ace or the grand prix.
“The w💦eekend started in a good way but then day by day, it became more complicated,” he reacted.
“Today in the race I kept calm, I was losing a little bit of ground, but I was not panicking. The aim was to finish the r𓆉ace and I was riding with this in mind.
“Unfortunately, at one point in Turn 13 I lost the front and I couldn’t save it. A tricky crashღ to understand but we start thinking aboꦉut Australia.”
After his weekend ended in the gravel, a mise꧂rable Marquez stayed at the barri𝕴ers for a while, watching the other bikes go past.
"I wa🐻s trying to understand the 𝔉mistake I had made,” he said to .
“I didn't do anything special, I was following what I f𓄧elt the bike was asking of me.
“The telemetry says♑ that I did the same thing as the previous lap and I fell, my m🍨istake.
"I have apologised to the team a♕nd I am going to face these five remaining races in the best possible way.
"We have tꦑwo circuits left where we will suffer a lot and two where we 𒁃can do a little better, let's see if we can save the situation in the best way we can.”
Marquez to change mentality for final rounds with Honda
His latest fall in the Indonesian MotoGP is the༒ 23rd of this season.
"One more, twenty-something this yeaꦬr, well, it's over, five races,” a frustrated Marquez sai🌠d.
“I want to apologise to the team, this weekend we have gone from more to less, normally it was the other way around, from🌄 less to more.
“Now i𒆙t's time to take a little step back. In the last races, from India, it seemed that we were further ahead, you get encouraged, you see yourself more with the first a🔥nd this makes you lose your reference.
“Now it's time to return to th🃏e mentality of Silverstone and Montmelo, take a little step🐻 back and finish races."
Marquez shifted his mind-set at the mid-way point of 2023 after a harrowing Sachsenring weekend full of crashes, and focused sole𝓰ly on completing races.
This season he has finished just five gr♊ands prix.
Marquez said: "I was very calm, after the sprint I ♌was very calm, I have not been stressed, but it was one of those falls that you do not see coming.&nbs💃p;
“Wit♔hout warning I fell, it is worse to fall trying not to fall than to pus🌠h.
“Yesterday (in the sprint) I understood ⛄the fall, not today.
"Now we have to take a step back and return to the mentality of finishing races. My intention today was to finiღsh and return t༒he bike to the garage."
The Australian MotoGP begins on Friday.
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