On a day where unpredictable weather clouded MotoG🦄P’ first ever visit to Mandalika, eight-time worl🐈d champion Marc Marquez finished day-one of testing in 17th position. 

Despite heavy rai🍸n and an early red-flag that was deployed in order to clean the track, representative lap times began to take shape come the end of the day. 

A late flurry of improvemꦺents from most of the grid saw Marquez, who was inside the top ten for muc🐷h of the day, relegated to P17 while team-mate Pol Espargaro went fastest by over four tenths. 

Should track conditions continue to improve over t🍨he weekend, then a significant imporvement regarding lap times will take pಌlace, which in-turn will see Marquez ride closer to the limit, something he chose not to do during today’s running. 

Asked where he feels strongest ar🌞ound the new Indonesian circuit, Marquez ad🎉ded: "Well, still I didn’t push enough to arrive at the limit. T1 I like it, I really like it. T3 is also a nice sector and also T4. 

"T2 I don’t like [laughs], it’s too fast. 𝔍I mean it's true that you are there and you just have to go. But it is really fast and there are still some bumps in the corner. If you take a big risk you can gain a🦹 lot of time. But at the moment, we need to keep calm."

Like the Sepang test last🌜 weekend, conditions proved incredibly humid and energy-sapping, which was especially the case for Marquez who remains close, but not yet at 1🔯00% full fitness.

The Spaniard's reduce🍷d workload in the afternoon despite track conditions getting better was about ‘surviving’ the next two days. 

"I started the day with energy, I did many laps, many laps in a row to try and unders♏tand the track, the lines," said the Repsol Honda rider. 

"But then already in the afternoon I said to 🍰the team, ‘let's cool down and breath a little bit more in the box’. 

"In the afternoon the trac🦩k was in a better way. We started to ride less but try bigger things because I need to survive tomor🔯row and Sunday."