Marc Marquez: “Ducati adaptation is over… I'm dancing with the top group”

Marc Marquez: "The adaptation p🌟rocess with🦩 the Ducati is over"

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Jerez was a track of two halves for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez during Friday practice for the Spanish MotoGP.

The Gresini rider w🐽as second quickest to Brad Binder in Sector 1 and 🃏fastest of all in Sector 3, yet only 17th in Sector 2 and 12th in Sector 4.

The Spaniard felt the afternoon wind was 🐟a factor. But - despite those obvious areas of improvement - Marquez was still under Francesco Bagnaia’s lap record heading int💎o the final sector and finished a close third on the timesheets.

“We’re losing a bit at turn five and in the final sector but one thing is for sure: the adaptation process with the Ducati mac♊hine is over, now it is time to do some fine-tuning to race with the best,” declared Marquez, who used his Austin set-up to dominate opening practice before team-mate and younger brother Alex put new rubber in the final minutes.

“The evolution is already done,” the #93 told the official MotoGP website. “As we showed in FP1, I felt good immediatel🏅y with the bike.

“The most important thing is that on the race pace, we were there. On the time attack, also we were there in the top th𓄧ree.

“So tomorrow, the important thing is to try to be in the top six positions in qualifyi🌱ng to have some chance in the Sprint and main race.”

Returning ཧto the scene of his career-changing 2020 accident, Marquez, who is targetin🧸g his first Sunday podium on a Ducati, added: 

“This year I'm enjoying [again]. I'm dancing with the top group. And let's see if we can keep going like🙈 this.

“Of course, to🐽 win we still need to have some evolut💟ions to my riding style. But to be up there in the top five, which is the target, we are there.”

Marquez's words could also be seen as a♈ further message t🎃o Ducati that he is ready for full factory machinery in 2025, an aim he stated publicly on Thursday.

After his perfect start to the weekend, Alex Marquez was one of nine riders to fall in the afternoon but salv🐲aged the final top ten place for direct Qualifying 2 access.

“Too bad for the afternoon crash and especially for the traffic encountered during the time attack, otherwise we would have been much higher in the practice timesheets,” Aܫlex 🔯said. “[But] we needed to recover the feeling and the confidence, and we did it.

🐻“To be racing in front of the home crowd obviously helps in being fast straight away from the morning. We need to be as close as we can to the front of the grid because it’s not easy to overtake here, so our full focus is now on tomorrow’s qualifying.”

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