Marc Marquez verdict on "mistake" after crashing from Assen sprint

'The positive note is that I could have hurt m𓄧yself and that didn’t happen - especially this morning'

Marc Marquez, 2024 Dutch MotoGP
Marc Marquez, 2024 Dutch MotoGP

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez failed to finish a MotoGP Sprint race for the first time th♌is season after an unusual crash at the start of lap 2 in Assen.

The Gresini Ducati rider, startingꦜ seventh after a fast crash while trying to pass Aleix Espargaro at Turn 7 in qualify𓆏ing, gained two places on the opening lap.

But his race came to an early end soon after, when h🐬e clipped the inside kerb at Turn 2, the resulting jolt sending him down and out.

“It’s never good to m🌠ake a mistake and c✨rash,” Marquez said. 

"Already on the first 🐼lap, I hit the kerb a bit and realised there was a bump and said I'd be careful the nex𝓡t lap.

"But then being behind the group, I missed the line, hit the bump again 🌌and couldnꦉ't save the front.

“Too bad for the race because the feeling with the bike was excellent and now we ꧋need to get it back during warm-up.”

💮The eight-time world champion added: “The positive note is that I could have hurt myself and that didn’t happen – especially t𓄧his morning at Turn 7.

"A lot of riders📖 were waiting for a tow. Then Aleix overtook me at the last corner and I was a bit stuck behind him.

"I honestly didn't plan to overtake him but when I saw he was 🤪preparing a lot Turn 7, I jumped in.

"I was🍃n't going too much faster than on my fastest lap, but I hi🦂t the bump. Luckily, I crashed alone."

The Sprint mishap means Marquez has dropped 44 points behind title 🍌lead😼er Jorge Martin and 29 from future factory Ducati team-mate Francesco Bagnaia.

Bagnaia and Martin finished where they had qualified, in first and second respectively, on Saturdꦇay.

With Marc ౠdown and out, team-mate and brother Alexꦫ was the only Gresini rider to reach the chequered flag.

Alex al😼so had a complicated race, holding fourth for much of the Sprint, then dropping to seventh in the closing laps, when he als🅠o received a long lap penalty for exceeding track limits.

That became a three-second post-race penalty, which cost Marquez another place, meaning he was classiဣfied behind Fabio Quartararo in eighth.

“With two laps less, it co💎u⛦ld have been a whole different result,” he said,

“Joking aside, we struggled a bit towardsꦛ the end with the rear tyre, but on the other h🍒and we gathered some useful information on the front hard tyre which are important ahead of the full race.

“Now we need to do som🦋e fine tuning and tomorrow we’llꦍ be capable of battling for the top five.”

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