On pole and the clear pre-race favourite, Marc Marquez concocted two different strategies depending on his position at turn on🎶e 𒁏of Sunday's Argentina MotoGP.

"Plan A was a good start, pushing from the beginning," said the reigning fivღe-time MotoGP champion.

"Or Plan B, which was not such a good start - because you never know about Ducati with that holeshot sy♈stem! I was thinking if they start first, I will save the tyres in the beginni✤ng and push in the end."

But the Repsol Honda rider d🎶id get the holeshot and put Plan A to deva🌳stating effect.

"The start was perfect, I was so concentrated. I saw in the first lap that it was '+0.7', maybe a little bit more, and 🔜then just I kept pushing. I understood that the first laps were where I could make the biggest⛎ difference and this was the strategy.

"At the end I was not pushing at my 100 percent because I was 🐲trying to manage the risk."

Marquez's official winning m𒀰argin was 9.816s, des𝓀pite backing off in the closing stages, making it his biggest ever dry victory.

"We need to enjoy and be happy about the weekend, but🃏 in the end the [winning margin] was big but the 25 points are the same," said the Spaniard, whose only real difficulty this weekend was when his chain derailed in FP4.

"So I'm happy, but we need to keep pushing because other tracks will arrive where we will struggle more. But when we have this feeling, we need to use all ou🎶r potential to take the 25 points.

"For some reason this weekend since I went out from the pit box I was in good shape and when you are in good shape, when you have that sweet feeling, everything comes easier.📖"

With Qatar winner Andrea Dovizioso losing second place to Valentino Rossi on the final lap, Marquez al𓄧so takes over the early 𒐪world championship lead, at a venue where he suffered a nightmare three race penalties and zero points one year ago.

"Last year I felt very similar," Marquez said of🦩 his start to the season. "I mean, last year of course here we took zero points here, but the speed was there. I was really, really fast on the race b🧸ut we did a few mistakes.

"Now we will see, but always I try to be quiet because the championship𒁏 is veryꦛ long and other tracks will arrive.

"But what I can see is that it's always the same names up around the top five. Th𒈔at means if you do one mistake you can drop many positions in the championship…"

Round three takes place at COTA in t🐼wo weeks, a track Marquez has never been beaten at.