Revealed: Marc Marquez ‘said no’ to last-gasp bike set-up at German MotoGP
Marc Marquez 'just gri🐷tt🅰ed his teeth' rather than use a modified set-up
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez rejected a last-minute bike set-up designe🍬d to ease injuries.
The Gresini Ducati rider preferred a machine that gave him a greater chance of a good result, even iꦐf it inflicted🙈 pain on the injuries suffered on Friday.
Marquezﷺ's crash on Friday caused a broken finger and pain to the ribs, before a frusꦇtrating qualifying session resulted in a P13 start.
But Marquez sailed ♐to a P2 finish, behind Pecco Bagnaia who profited from Jorge Martin crashing from the leaꦏd.
Marquez also had to overcome contact with Franco Morbid♍elli which smashed his screen and inflated his airbag.
“Adrenaline took over. He set his fastest first sector of the weekend without a sc𒐪reen, without wind protection,” Marquez’s crew chief Frankie Carchedi told TNT Sports.
Carchedi paid tribute to a unique round for Marquez: “It’s a bit of an understatement. In all my years, I’ve never had a w💞eekend like𒈔 this.
“You always make a plan - ▨ how many laps, what bike you will use♌d. We might as well have not bothered! Because nothing went to plan!
“We had a technical [problem]. We had to🍰 use the other bike.
“Saturday, we 💃prepared everything in case he went out, which we weren’t sure about until the last second.
“It was pretty much a bonus. T♉here was no plan that went right.
“In qualifying, we had a technical with ༒one bike, had to jump on another, then traffic…
“Yesterday he struggled in Sector 1, the two right c🔜orners, wh🍷ere he had problems with his ribs.
“This morning, you don’t normally do a bike set-up f🐠or an i🐲njury. But we tried something to make it more agile to help him.
“It helped his problem. But he said ‘no’.
“Our base for FP1 was what h꧅e started the race with, and just gritted his teeth.
“We just talked about finishing and gettin♔g as many points as we can. It’s so🅰 difficult to overtake.
“Fortunately where Marc was strong, and we were strong, was the last se🃏ctor.
“He set his fastest Sꦇector 1 of the whole weekend on the last lap.”
Airbag "hurt" - "you can't breathe"
The contact with Pramac’s Morbi𝔉delli, which rocked Marquez and damaged his bike, spurred him on.
“This triggered him into ac𝓀tion,” Michael Laverty analysed on 🎉TNT Sports.
“Frankie was wಞide, comes back on line. The door was open, Marc tried to stick his GP23 in there.
“Contact, the air෴bag goes up, the screen is꧂ broken.
“Their legs ca🎉me together, it 🌳was a racing incident. It sparked something within Marc - game on!
“At the next direction change, Enea Bastianini gets past him. Even with his airb๊ag up, he fights at the top of the hill, back on Enea.”
Sylvain Guintoli explained the impact of an airbag inflating: “It will haveꦆ hurt his ribs a lot. It does deflate, but it takes time.
“When it goes off, it fee🐲ls really uncomfortable. It will have hurt.
“The airbag inflated is on your arms, your sides, your bacꦰk, everything feels super-tight and you can’t breathe.
“The contact with Morbidelli fired him up, he📖 took all 🉐the risk and didn’t care.”
Laverty added: “Marc is a masochist, as soon as pain is triggered it spurs him into action. He is something e💮xceptional.”
Guintoli said: “There is no quitting. Everything that could have✱ gone wrong, did go wrong - multiple technical problems, a c♋rash, an injury, the traffic on-track, he couldn’t get to Q2, starting from 13th.
“Despite all this,꧅ there is no giving up. Only attacking 🙈all the time.”
However, it was the first time in nine MotoGP grands prix that Marquez has started at the Sachsenring t🍸hat he failed 🍃to win.
He is third♚ in the MotoGP standings, 56 points behind new leader Bagnaia.
James was a sports j♚ournalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering every👍thing from American sports, to football, to F1.
