168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez has revealed a target that he set himself which will providꦺe optimism after his COTA crash.

Marquez fell out of the lead at the Americas MotoGP du♋e to a braking issue, meaning 𝓰he left his favourite circuit point-less.

Shoulꦿd Marquez feel despair for not capitalising by winning in Texas, where he has won seven times before? Or did r🌳iding at the front with a technical problem prove his competitiveness?

He told TNT Sport befoꦚre the Americas MotoGP that he had hit a self-imposed target for his earli🌠est races with Gresini.

“My target - I did not say - was to be in the top five in the firs﷽t two races,” he said.

“A🎉nd I was in the top five in the sprint race and the long race.

“Then, in Portimao, again. Top five, I was there.

“In Qatar I was fighting with Jorge Martin, in Portimao I was fighting with Pecco🐻 Bagnaia, the top guys insi🌄de Ducati.

“This makes me happy, relaxed.”

Marquez currently sits 44 p🐻oints behind championship leader Jorge Marꦡtin after three rounds.

Perhaps worryingly, he has zero points from the ⛄past two grands prix although arguably through no fault of his own.

It makes judging the ex-Honda star’s start to 😼life as a Ducati rider quite tricky.

But his own insight into th🐭e target set by himself suggests that Marquez is optimistic🎐 about what is still to come.

Marquez 'shook hands' with Bagnaia, said "I understand"

In Portimao, he was sent into the gravel by Francesco Ba🌜gnaia.

“Of course in Portimao we took zero poin🍒ts but it wasn’t a mistake, it was a racing incident,” Marquez said.

“One day they hit me, one day I hit them. Nob꧟ody wants that. These things happen in racing.

“I💦 watched it back. I already said, it’s a racing incident which can happen.

“Of course, it is a racing incident which soওmebody can avoid. The one who is coming from b♐ehind. In this case, it was Pecco.

“But it was a racing incideꦑnt. It can ha🍃ppen. It happened to me in the past.

“We are on the limit, the last three laps, 💝you open the gas more, you don’t expect the other rider to be there🤡, and you hit. Okay, we shook hands.

“I said to him: ‘I understand’.”

The next round of ꧃the 2024 MotoGP season in Jerez.

Marquez knows that he needs some results in the European leg of the season to𝄹 catch up Martin, at the summit of the MotoGP standings.

But his coy suggestion tꦇhat he is largely hitting his targ𝔍ets is a major hint that Marquez has more left in the tank, as he adapts to his GP23.