Marc Marquez crashes his Ducati for the first time in final hour of MotoGP test
Marc Marquez has crossed🃏 the inevitable hurdle of crashing his Ducati for the first time
Marc Marquez suffered his first cr♋ash on💙 a Ducati in the last hour of 2024 MotoGP preseason testing.
Ma♐rquez fell at Turn 4, but emerged okay, with around 20 minutes remaining of the two-day Qatar test.
He was seen chatting away in the box with his crew chief F🍰rankie Carchedi shortly afterwards.
Marquez was in P4 on the timཧesheet at the time of his crash, and he ended in the same position.
It is notable because Marquez is emerging from a 2023 where he broke an unwanted personal record for his most amount of crashes ever (29)🍷 in his last season with Honda.
Now switching to Ducati, there remains secrܫecy around Marquez’s true potential but he has crossed the inevitable hurdle of crash𒈔ing for the first time.
He came within minutes of going through five days of preseason testing (three in Sepang, two in Qatar) without cr⛦ashing his Ducati.
In Sepang he had to correct initial suspicions that he had fallen. He told reporters that he had, in fact, merely experienced a tecꦚhnical issue.
But, ahead of the season-opening race on March 8 in Qatar, Marquez has now propeไrly 🥃experienced the feeling of falling off a Ducati.
T🃏he Gresini Racing rider will be confident that a first crash simply represents him edging closer to finding the limꦿit of his new bike.
Earlier on Tuesday, Marquez suffered technic✃al problems with his G🅘P23.
Although his preseason concluded with a crash,🔥 the t𝄹rue story of his build-up to the 2024 MotoGP season will be rewritten depending upon how he fares at the first race next month.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, ꧑to F1.
