Marc Marquez reveals secret self-imposed target to provide new hope despite COTA
Marc Marquez sheds light on whether or𓆏 not he is hitti♐ng "my target" set at the start of the year

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez has revealed a target that he set himself which will provide optimis😼m after his CO♐TA crash.
Marquez fell out of the lead at the Americas MotoGP due to a braking issue, meaning he le൲ft hi🐻s favourite circuit point-less.
Should Marquez feel despair for not capitalising by winning in Texas, where he has won seven ⛦timeౠs before? Or did riding at the front with a technical problem prove his competitiveness?
He told TNT Sport before the Ameri﷽cas MotoGP that he had hit a self-imposed target ﷺfor his earliest races with Gresini.
“My target - I did n🦩ot say - was to be in the top five in the first two races,” he said.
“And I was in the top five in the sprint r♚ace and the long race.
“Then, in Portimao, again. Top five, I was there.
“In Qatar I was fighting with Jorge Martin, in Portimao I was fighting with Pecco Bagnaia, the top🍌 guys inside Ducati.
“This makes me happy, relaxed.”
Marquez currently sits 44 points behind championship le🉐ader Jorge Martin after three rounds.
Perhaps worryingly, he has 🎃zero points from the past two grands prix although arguably through no fault of🎃 his own.
It makes judging the ex-Honda staᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚr’s start to life as a Ducati rider quite tricky.
Buꦅt his own insight into the target set by himself suggests that Marquez is optimistic about what is still to come.
Marquez 'shook hands' with Bagnaia, said "I understand"
In Portimao, he was sent intoꦇ ☂the gravel by Francesco Bagnaia.
“Of course in Portim✨ao we took zero points but it wasn’t a mistake, it was a racing incident,” Marquez said.
“One day they hit me, one day I hit them. Nobody wants that. These things happen in 🅠racing.
“I watched it back. I alrea💦dy said, it’s a racing incident which✃ can happen.
“Of course, it is a racing incident which somebody can avoid. The onꦰ𓆉e who is coming from behind. In this case, it was Pecco.
“But it was a racing incident.🤪 It can ha𝓰ppen. It happened to me in the past.
“We are on the limit, the last three laps, you open the gas more, you don’t expect the o🍃ther riಌder to be there, and you hit. Okay, we shook hands.
“I said to him: ‘I understand’.”
The next round o𒁃f the 2024 MotoGP season in Jerez.
Marquez knows that he needs some results in the European leg of the season to catch up 🐓Martin, at the summit of the MotoGP standings.
But his coy suggestion that he💛 is largely hitting his targets is a major hint that Marquez has more left♉ in the tank, as he adapts to his GP23.

James was a spo𒐪rt🎉s journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.