Marc Marquez says “totally unexpected” Misano win “impossible” without rain
“Without those dro💞ps it was 𝔉impossible to fight with the top guys”
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez says his “totally unexpected” victory at the San Marino MotoGP “was impossible” without the drops of rain that impacte🌳d the early part of the race.
The Gresini rider felt he had “ruined” his weekend w✅hen he crashed in Q2 an🍬d left himself ninth on the grid.
Marquez struggled in the sprint to make pro🔥gress and could only come up with fifth.
Light rain in the early stages of the grand prix brought Marquez into contention for victory on Sunda൲y, however, with the Spaniard taking the lead from Francesco Bagnaia on lap eight of 27.
Knowing he had strong pace for the second half of the race, Marquez defended Bagnai🔜a well before streaking 3.1s clear at the chequered flag to score🍬 a second win in a week in 2024.
But Marque꧒z admitted after the race that without the iffy conditionℱs he would not have been able to fight at the front.
“This one was totally unexpected, especially because starting in ninth place, without those drops [of rain] it was impossible to fight with the top guys,” said Marquez, who is now 53 points off the champion𒁏ship lead.
“We knew that our second part of the race was super strong and for me, the most important thing… ok, one point is to lead the race, but the other point is to open a gap to the world champion and to Pecco who is 🍒super-fast here.
“𝓀I was able to ride in a very good way, very fast and defend in the first part of that second part of that race. And then 🐬attack in the last laps.”
When the rain was at its worst on lap 💮seven, Jorge Martin elected to pit for his wet bike while running in second.
Marquez says he had no intention of pitting 🃏at that point despite having also seen Franco Morbidelli crash out of third in the wet, but admits had condition🌳s worsened on the following lap he would have boxed.
“No,” he replied when 🙈he thought about pitting when Martin did.
“Of cꦬourse, at one point if there was one more lap raining like this then maybe it’s time to go in.
“Bܫut especially when I saw that nobody went in and only one rider [did] you need🐼 to stay out and this is what I did.
“I controlled in a good way, but then on the next lap is when I attacked. I gave everything. I saw♐ some riders crashed because it was ♏super wet in Turns 1/2, but we managed it well.”
Marquez added: "During the whole weekend we had💜 the speed. But we made a mistake in qualify🉐ing.
"It is therℱe that we need to improve, in two weeks.
"Apart from that, when I saw the drops on my visor and the asph💜alt꧋, I decided to take a risk..."
