Sepang MotoGP Test: Luca Marini: Sprints? Give everything in every corner, ‘crazy race’

MotoGP’s new Sprint races might not be classed as ‘GPs’ but they could well provide the most memorable action of the weekend.
Fabio Quartararo MotoGP race, Valencia MotoGP. 6 November
Fabio Quartararo MotoGP race, Valencia MotoGP. 6 November

The half-length Sprints wi🧸ll ta♚ke place at the end of each Saturday, with world championship points on offer from first (12) to ninth (1) places.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Luca Marini, not only fastest at the Sepang test but one of the few riders 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:to complete a 10-lap Sprint simu🎃lation, believes the usual tactics and tyre-♔saving stra🔯tegies will go out of the window.

“When you have to do 20 laps [a full race] then you ride in a bit of a different way,” said the VR46 Ducati rider. “Maybe the first three laps you fight with the other riders, overtake and try to put yourself in ‘your’ position, knowing your best pac🍃e.

“Then you pay attention to the rear tyre, pay att𒅌ention to the braking to not be overtaken from behind, try to stay in the slipstream but not too much because then the front tyre pres🐻sure goes too high.

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“But I think for 10 laps it is just going to be about giving everything in every corner. Because the pressure of the tyre will be okay, the tyre wear w🎐ill be okay, even with the soft. Also with this high level of riders and bikes, I think it will be a very big group, with seven or ten riders [at the front].

“We don’t know exactly now but, for me, it will be a very big fight because other bikes that are str🍌uggling, over 10 laps and with a soft tyre they can do a bit more.

“The potential of every 🌜bike is unbelievable. Maybe the KTM is a little bit delayed but Pol Espargaro was fast [on day two at Sepang] also in the pace, so you never know.

"We ꧒need to wait for the first [Sprint] but I expect a crazy race.”

MotoGP’s first Sprint race will be held on March 25 at the Portimao🧸 season opener.

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