Marc Marquez: Wet P1, "stressful" Saturday ahead, Acosta save “a good one!”
New Gresini Ducati rider Marc Marquez quick in the dry and then fastest in the wet durinꦡg day one of the Qatar MotoGP.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez overcame🀅 some early Honda instincts to make an immed𝄹iate impact on his first race weekend as a Gresini Ducati MotoGP rider.
The Spaniard set the fourth fastest lap time (+0.177s) in opening Friday practice at Lusail, then made the best of a shock 🌱evening shower to set the pace on his wet Desmosedici debut in the second session.
That would also normally have secured the eight-time world champion direct ac⛎cess to Saturday’s Qualifying 2.
But the wet track under floodlighꦓts scenario had never beꦏen attempted in a MotoGP session before.
When consulted by Race Dire෴ction, most riders are understood to have voted in favour of convertiꦿng the wet session into a free practice, for safety reasons, although the likes of Marquez and Jack Miller are rumoured to have voted against the move.
The change meant Q2 access was moved to an extended Saturday pr🌌actice, immediately followed by qualifyౠing itself.
“I was looking for a solid day,” Marquez told MotoGP.com. “The main target was trying to be in Qualifying 2 straight away, but they changed the𝕴 schedule and we moved the practice to Saturday.
“[Anyway] I tried for the first time the Ducati bike in wet, in Qatar which was super strange, but the feeling was good an෴d I’m happy.”

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The revised Saturday schedule means some riders will have to do time attacks for three consecutive sessions (P3, Q1, Q2) in less than an h🤡our.
“It will be a very stressful day,” Marquez said.
Marquez warned on Thursday that, under suc꧃h pressure, he is still battling to bury his old Honda instincts, which again emerged on day one.
“I went out in FP1 and my instinct when I was with other riders was riding like a Honda,” he explained. “Then I slowed down a bit and I said ‘OK, calm♔ down’. And then in the second run, I start to ride like Ducaꦇti.
“And then it waܫs better, but tomorrow also I need to control and it will be not easy. The first target is to 🤡try to be in Qualifying 2 but the times are super tight and everything can happen, but the feelings in both dry and wet conditions were good.
“On the dry there are 3 to 4 riders who are quicker than us, but we need to keep working and keep discovering ꦉthe bike litt✱le by little.”

Among those ahead of Marquez in the dry was a cer🌳tain Pedro Acosta, the star rookie that Marquez has tipped for race wins and perhaps even a championship chall🐷enge his season.
“I said yesterday, Pedro Acosta is a super talented rider. The [KTM] bike, as Binder showed last year, is working in a good way. And he will fight for the vict𒅌ories, with podiums and we will see for the championship.
“But he'⛦s a super talented rider and he will have a lot of years of MotoGP success.”
That talent was on displa🌠y as Ac🌟osta produced a Marquez-style save through Turn 1 in the dry opening session.
“That was a good one! Believe me,” said Marquez.

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