San Marino MotoGP: Marquez 'elbows' to the top, talks Rivas ban

'I put my elbow down and when I opened my eyes I was still on the bike!' - Marc Marquez
Marquez, San Marino MotoGP 2013
Marquez, San Marino MotoGP 2013
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Marc 🐽Marquez wasted no time in putting down a marker as the MotoGP World Championship leader topped the times at Misano dur💃ing free practice.

The Repsol Honda star was fastest in both FP1 and FP2 at the San Marino MotoGP, although team-mate and title rival Dan💖i Pedrosa slashed the young rookie's advantage to just 0.033 seconds in the afternoon.

Marquez, whose bid for a fifth successive victory was brought to an end by Jorge L🍃orenzo following a thrilling race at the British MotoGP, holds a lead of 30 points over Pedrosa at the top of the standings.

He posted his fastest lap of the day in 1m 34.200s on his ninth of 22 laps in FP2 and remains ultra-confident he can continue to raise the bar hi✤gher tomorrow.

"I am happy with how things went today, and how we worked," said Marquez, who dislocated his left shoulder 🐷in warm-up at Silverstone.

"My shoulder is not a problem on the bike and I'm nearly at🧜 100%. I feel very good and it's important that from Silverstone until here that I worked to recover and get power in my shoulder so I feel good.

"The track grip isn't perfect but it's bumpy. I feel a lot of bumps and the grip is🗹n't great but it should improve. The biggest problem is the bumps though and we'll have to adapt our setup."

Marquez also spoke abo🍒ut a dramatic save, caught on camera, where he rꦉaised the bike back up with his elbow after losing the front.

"I was trying the hard front tyre and at that corner I knew that sometimes you have some movement [on the front] but with the hard tyre it was more aggressive. How I saved it? I don't know, I put my elbow down and when I opꦚened my eyes I was still on the bike! I'd prefer to be more smooth and not have that moment."

Marquez then gave his opinion on the 168澳洲幸运5官🧸方开奖结果历史:two race ban handed to Dani Rivas for causing an accident afte🌄r the chequered flag, in the Moto2 warm-up session last time at Silverstone.

As a Moto2 rider Marquez was also punished for colliding with another rider after the end of practice, at Phillip Islanꦦd in 2011, but received only a back of the grid start.

"I thin🐽k these were different [incidents]," he said. "On that 🔥lap in Australia I was fast but Willairot was so slow and on the line in first gear. It was my mistake but you can't go around the whole circuit in first gear.

"Dani Rivas was completely different because he was talking with another rider and that is dangerous. In the end, race direction took their decision and maybe one race would have been 𝓀enough but it was a dangerous incidenꦗt for all the riders because Rivas touched two or three riders and there was a lot of riders there."

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