Marc Marquez P3 despite crash: “I think I know why, it was my mistake…”
“I think I know why I crashed. It was my mistake," Marc Marquez saღys in Portimao
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez crashed his Ducati for the first time on a race weekend yet still finished Friday Practice third-fastest at the Portuguese MotoGP.
Marquez ended the morning s🍷ession fastest, then finished the day in P3 after losing the front of his Ducati at Turn 5.
Y🦩et, it was all smiles after a productive day in Portimao.
Marquez assessed his crashܫ: “We did a small change on the b♈ike to give me more confidence.
“If you have more confidence you are able to push 🃏more.
“We need to go this way.
“The crash was on the last time attack.
“When I was behind somebody on a Honda I felt better. On a Ducati I feel wor🔥se.
“I try to manage it in a different way.
“I lost the rea﷽r on entry. A strange crash. I need to analyse.
“I think I know why I crashed. It was my mistake.
“When you do a time attack, my instinct arrives. I am used to going ♛super-fast on the apex with a Honda. On this bike, you need to ride in a different way.
“The potential is in another area.
“I had shaking. I saw the speed was too fast. I tried to go in🌄 with my instinct, with a slide, but now I know that I can’t!”
Marquez had briefly gone fastest during the afternoon session, then 𒅌dropped back down to fifth.
With one ru♊n to go, he was P2, and eventually settled for P3 behind Enea Bastianini and Jack Miller.
He explained his wide smile in the Gre🐭sini garage: “It makes me happy that I’m enjoying it. I’m top five, six, you feel competitive. I am consistent with lap times.
“The track will improve. I 🌞know Pecco and Martin will arrive.
“Two or three riders are faster than us.
“But I’m enjoying it.”
Portimao was 𓂃expected to be a major test for Marquez because he had never tested a Ducati here, unlike in Qatar.
But he fed back: “Easier than Qatar. In Qatജar I struggled more.
“I was ri𝓰ding - you say conservatively - but it ꦕwas just without confidence.
“It looks conservative but when you don’t have confi꧃dence you can’t pu📖sh.
“Here, the confidence is better. The technician Frankie Carchedi underst🃏an𝕴ds my riding style better. I understand the bike better. I understand what I need on this bike to be fast.
“This helps with confidence and wi🍬th lap times, and to be quic🙈k.”
Marquez gave himself an “eight out of 10, I w💛ould say 9 without the crash” for his F🐷riday at Portimao.
He added: “Iꦬ pushed, but everybody pushed. Practice is one of the mosꦰt stressful of the weekend.
“Because you need to work for the weekend, you can’t crash the first bike, you n🍃eed to do three time attacks, be in the top 10…
“It’s super stressful on the mental side.”
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and hasꦍ seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the for🌃efront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
