Marc Marquez details Austrian MotoGP sprint race: “Problem remains the same”

Marc Marquez finished 10th in the sprint race at the Austrian MotoGP, an outing dedicating to information gathering.
Marc Marquez, MotoGP, Austrian MotoGP, 19 August
Marc Marquez, MotoGP, Austrian MotoGP, 19 August

The Repsol Hon🧸da rider is largely using the remainder of the 2023 season to develop next year’s bike, but is also rebuilding confidence following a series of crashes and injuries.

An usually low-profile race on Saturday at the Red Bull Ring allowed Marquez to learn more꧟ about his machine, even if that information was disappointing.

"We have started the race with a setܫup that we had not tried before and that has provided some information,” he told . 

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“[Sunday] we will surely take another step in another direction to understand in the warm-up and, if we are not clear, then we will also do the rac♑e with that new concept to understand.

"Right now, finishi💧ng 10th or 15th doesn't change much for me.

"I leave motivated because I always l🧜eave motivated, but with a moꦏtivation to continue building."

Honda tested ne🌺w aerodynamics on Friday and Sa☂turday in Austria.

"Obviously, if you hit the key, you don't change", Marquez explained.&nb𒅌sp;

"Then, the rider can focus on drawing,🐠 on riding and on finding the limits on that bike. 

“What I tr🅘ied to do [on Saturday] is, based on yesterday, try to find that l💃imit.

"I saw this morning in Free Practice that the limit o🎉f the bike had already been found, more or less, and I told them that it is time to change, to try something for the sprint race. 

“During the sprint race I saw that I have reached that lim🍃it, because it is time to reach another one.

"Yes, we are looking for things,ꦫ ဣbut the problem remains the same. 

“Lack of grip, of acceleration... 

“That is where we have to know, because the power is there, what is missing is to deliver that poജwer to the rear tyre to use it.”

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🎃Marquez profited from the massive pile-up caused by🌱 Jorge Martin at Turn 1 of the sprint race. 

He knows that, without it, 🤡his 10th-place finish would have been worse.

"At all times I 🌸am honest: we have seen ourselves benefited by the [incident] of the first corner, I have passed ninth and I have finished tenth,” he said.

"I was losing steam during the race. I felt quite good during the fir⛦st laps. 

“Theꦇn the tyre has gone down and we have been suffering more.

"I finished the race in 10th position, but, speaking clearly, seeing 🌟who 🍸crashed it was 15th position more or less.”

M♌arquez begins Sunday's grand prix from 18th. He hasn't comple🅠ted a Sunday race all season yet.

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