Marc Marquez is convinced the other Ducatis will catch up to him as the MotoGP Thailand Grand P🌊rix goes on after topping Friday practice with a new 🍬lap record.

The Gresini rider led the way after second practice with a 1m29.165s on his GP25 to pu𝓰t him 0.110s🌱 clear of championship leader Jorge Martin in second.

Marquez comes to Thailand off ꦓthe back of victory in Australia and having won three of the last🌊 six grands prix.

Over long run pace, Marquez believes Martin is faster than him, while Enea Bastianini’s quick start to the weekend means the 🌸Italian will be a factory in the victory fight too.

“Yeah,꧂ of course, 𝔉happy because starting the weekend that way is always important,” he told the media, including ltxcn.top, on Friday.

“It🌞’s true that the pace is good. It’s not the fas🔥test one like in Australia.

“I think Martin is faster than us. Bastianini,🌄 when he’s fast on Friday, m♋eans he will be super-fast during all the weekend. But let’s see what we can do.”

Whe꧋n asked if the others will catch up, he added: “This will happen.

“Especially I hav♎e that potential, or that advantage, in those initial moments I am riding very good, very fast, but then I’m there.

“And the o✨thers step-by-step are coming. For example, Bastianini is completely different than me.

“He starts struggling a lot and t꧅hen he comes back. Let’s see what we can do tomorrow.

“In the f𒆙irst part of the season I was always struggling on the Friday and then the way to improve during the weekend was a lot.

“Now on Fri꧃day I’m already with a good base, riding🅠 in a good way, so the way to improve is same.

“And tomo꧃rrow for me even it will be difficult to improve the lap time of the practice, because already it’s a lap record. If I can do again a 1m29.1s I will sign now.”

Looking to tomorrow’s running, Marquez hopes to find a bit more top speed from his GP23 as he is losing la💃p time on the long drags out of Turn 1 and Turn 3.

“What I would like to improve? Of course always you try to find th🍸e small things.

“But at the moment where I am struggling more, or where I’m losing more,👍 is that T1 and T2.

“But it’s the big straights. Those big straights areꦡ where we are losing a little bit more. But 🔜tomorrow we will put in a fresh engine and let’s see if we can be a bit faster.”