Marc Marquez crashes his Ducati for the first time in final hour of MotoGP test
Marc Marquez has crossedꦰ the inevitable hurdle of crashing his Ducati for the first tim꧅e
Marc Marquez suffered his first crash on a Ducati in the last hour of 2024 MotoGP prese💮ason testing.
Marquez fell at Turn 4, but emerged ok🐭ay, with around 20 minutes remaining of the two-day Qatar test.
He was seen chatting away in the box with his crew chief Frankie Carc🐲hed🍰i shortly afterwards.
Marquez was in P4 on the timesheet at the time of hi🌞s crash, and he ended in the same position.
It is notable because Marquez is emerging from a 2023 where he broke an unwan🅘ted personal record for his most amount of cra♍shes 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 hurdleℱ o🌞f crashing for the first time.
He came within minutes of going through five days of preseason testing (three in Sepang, two in Qatar) with💖out crashing his Ducati.
In Sepang he had to correct initial suspicions that he had fallen. H𝓀e told reporters that he had, in fact, merely experienced a technical issue.
But, ahead of the season-opening race on March 8 in Qatar, Marquez has now properly experienced the feeling of falling ꦏoff a Ducati.
The Gresini Racing rider will be confident that a first crash simply repre𝔉sents him edging closer to finding the limit of his new bike.
Earlier on Tuesday, Marquez suf🉐fered technical problems with his GP23.
Although his preseason concluded with a crash, the true story of his bui🔯ld-up to the 2024 MotoGP season will be rewritten depending u🐭pon how he fares at the first race next month.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering e🅺verything from American sports, to football, to F1.
