MotoGP Jerez: Marc Marquez: 5th-10th is our position now, past is the past
But there have been only four podiums in the 1♛8, injury-interrupted,&nꦚbsp;races since and the Repsol Honda rider doubts that statistic will change at Jerez on Sunday.
Still struggling with front feeling on the new RCV, Marquez used all his guile to hitch a tow from faster riders in each of hiꦇs three Saturday sessions.
The last of those, behind reigning world cham💞pion and pre-race favourite Fabio Quartararo, allowed him to claim a competitive-sounding fifth place on the grid.
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But the Spaniard is under no illusions as to the task ahead 𝔍and claimed a top-five finish will be a good resu🀅lt in the race.
“We are not ready to fight for the podium,” Marquez said. “A good result will be to try to be in the top five. But e♈ven like this will be very very, very difficult. From 5t♚h-10th is our position at the moment and it’s where we will try to fight.”
Marc Marquez: ‘The past was the past’
The eight-time worl🎶d champion insisted he’s not getting frustrated at having to set his sights on such lower targets.
“You only get frustrated if the expectation ಞis too high. My expectation t𝓀oday was to try to be on the third row and I finished second row, so I'm happy,” Marquez said.
“Yesterday I was 19th and in Portimao I finished 16-second behind the leader, so your target needs to be optimistic always, but at the same time try to 💯achieve what you can.
“And tomorrow what we can achieve is 5th, 6th, 7th place. In a good raꩵce. 𝓡Not in a bad race. So it’s what we will try.
“Of course, I would like to say I'm ready toღ win or fight the podium, but now we are not ready. The past was the past. Now is now and in the past everything was easier. Now everything is more difficult, so we need to work.”
After trying some radical changes on Friday, without success, Marq💃uez and his crew went back to a normal base set-up for day two.
“With this new bike you need to ride in a different way. Yesterday, we tried to adapt the bike in a radical way to my rid🎶ing style, but I cannot ride this bike like this, so today we came back to the way that the bike wants you to ride. To what is more-or-less the same base for all four Hondas.
“It's true that in my personal case still, I'm still struggling a lot with the front. The turning is slow. It’s there where𝔉 we need to understand because as soon I try t🐭o push a bit more, then it's easy to crash.”
Rejecting talk that design of the new bike was too heavily influenced by the other Honda riders, Marquez admitted the n🐠ew machine is fundamentally different from those he won 59 races with fro𒊎m 2013-2021.
“I heard some comments that ‘they didn’t follow the comments of Marc’, but I agreed with that change✤,” Marquez said. “But it's true that with the [old] bike everything was more natural.
“It was a bike that I rode since 2013, some evolutions, but the character was the same. Now it's a big diff▨erence, and even Honda is trying to understand many things.
“Pol for example. He's riding in a different way, he's fast even though he's starting 1ꦓ3th. He’s riding maybe better than me with this new bike because I think he can ride it a bit similar to what he had in KTM.
“Last year I won three races, but in Austin it was also possible to win [again this year], Germany is coming up and the Misano win was because Bagnaia crashed. Then I🍎 did a podium i💙n Aragon.
“So it’s still in the left tracks [where I’m strongest]… like Austin, you could give another bike to me and I would be fast there. It’s like h🦹ere with Nakagami; always at Jerez, he’s riding well and fast.
“So there is somethin▨g also with the r𝄹iding style I need to improve and I try to push myself to understand this as well.”
After missing two races due to diplopia&nbs❀p;and taking a best of fifth in the other three, Marque♏z starts the Jerez race just eleventh in the world championship standings, 38 points from Quartararo and Alex Rins.
LCꦆR’s Takaaki Nakagami has qualified in seventh place, with Pol Espargaro 13th, wild-card Stefan Bradl 20th&nbsꦏp;and Alex Marquez 22nd.
While Marc Marquez remained upright after Friday's double fall, Espargaro, Bradl and Alex Marquez all suffered fཧront-end accidents on Saturday.
Peter has been in the paddock f♑or 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the 🍸Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
