Marc Marquez’s crew chief explains Australia tactics and psychological battle

Frankie Carchedi analyses the Australian MotoGP

Marc Marquez
Marc Marquez

Frankie Carchedi has explained the mind-set which enabled 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez to win the Australian MotoGP.

The Gresiꦫni Ducati rider took a hugely impressive victory at Phillip Island, certainly his best yet since leaving Honda.

Marquez fell to 13th on the first lap after a bad start caused by his visor tear-off falling beneath hi♕s own bike, but fought back to edge Jorge Martin.

Crew chief Carchedi told TNT Sports: “The plan was just to sit behind Jorge, save the tyres as much as possible, and have a go atꦿ the end.

“The first lap made a big difference. A🌞s soon as he got behind Pecco… atℱ Turn 3 we could see he was riding in a different way to the start of the weekend.

“In the last three or four lap♍s, he did the corners in a complไetely different way.”

Pramac’s Martin still leads the MotoGP championship, de🍬spite missing out on winning at Phillip Island due to Marquez’s overtake.

Carchedi was asked if they expected Martin to settle for P2 because it consolidated his own title ad꧒vantage.

“We thought that. When Marc went past the first time we thought ‘perfectജ, hopefully [Martin] will be thinking of the championship’,” Carchedi said.

“But he didn’t! He was pushing until the end.

“Y🉐ou see it in the wet, that riders back off a bit… then crash. His mentality was t🐓o push until the end.”

Martin did not desperately lunge at Marquez in the closing stages in a last-gasp attempt to win💙 the Australian MotoGP.

However, rather than his own cau෴tꦚion due to leading the championship, Carchedi believes it was Marquez who dissuaded Martin.

“From our point, we are strong out of the last corne🔥r,” Carchedi said.

“The question mark was: were we a꧃ble to hold the gap to the first corner?

“The first time he did it, [Martin] though♏t: ‘I need to adapt and think of somewhere else’.

“There has been great video footage of Marc this weeken🌠d at Turn 3. It looks spectacular but he is v✱ery fast, as well.

“He knew the best opportunity was at Turn 4.”

Marquez🐟 is 79 points behind c🐻hampionship leader Martin after Phillip Island, with three rounds remaining this season.

The title this ꧟year might still be out of reach but Marquez’s brilliant ride in Australia is an ominous warning for 2025 when he will have the latest-spec Ducati machinery.

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