168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez insisted he was "very happy" after finishing third during Friday practice in Qatar, at a Lusail circuit that has traditionally been one of his weakest on the MotoGP calendar.

Marquez, whose costly crash in Austin handed the worldꦅ championship initiative to younger brother Alex, ended the opening day just 0.167s behind surprise pacesetter Franco Morbidelli.

Marquez’s Ducati🌠 Lenovo team-mate and COTA ꦫwinner Francesco Bagnaia split the pair, while Alex completed an all-Ducati top five.

“Super good day, for Qatar,” Maꦐrc Marquez told MotoGP.com. “I'm very, very ha♌ppy, especially because I expected to be further from Pecco and Alex. Because normally they are very fast here and it's one of the circuits that I struggle.

“But I started in a good way. Even with the used tyres I feel better than with new tyres. I'm riding alone, I'm ꦇjust trying different riding styles at a circuit that is against my riding style, so I need to adapt a 💃bit."

Marquez - whose only previo💧us Qatar win was back in 2014 - explained that the flowing Lusail layout clashes with his aggressive riding style, which relies on late braking and cಌorner entry.

“N𝔍ormally I'm a rider that attacks on the brakes and attack the corner entry and this circuit is a lot of long corners, so then you cannot attack a lot on the corner entry,” 🍨he said.

While ꦉMarquez’s factory Ducati win streak was broken at COTA, he will be fighting to make it a perfect four pole positi𒆙ons in a row on Saturday afternoon.

“Qual𝐆ifying will be super important,” he said. “Because if I start in front - we need to understand how the others improve - but at the moment the race pace is good. 

"But it's true that from one day to the other, the traওck changes ꦅa lot here, so we need to keep going.”

After one daylight and one night-time session on Friday, final practice and qualifying will be in the sunshine on Saturday before a Sprint race under the floﷺodlights.

Alex takes a slender one-point title lead over Marc into the Sprint, with Bagnaia 𒆙a furthꦇer eleven points behind.