Marc Marquez “something was wrong” | “Worst weekend on a Ducati”
“You know when Marc is having a ba♎d weekend because he rides it like a Honda"
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez endured a disappointing British MotoGP which wa𒐪s described as his worst round of the s𝄹eason.
The Gresini rider finished fourth in Sunday’s grand prix, 24 hours after crashing out from fourtಌh-place in the sprint race.
He has conceded th🦂ird-place in the MotoGP standings to Enea Bastianini, who sensationally won the sprint and the grand prix.
“It’s the worst weekend that we’ve seen him on the Ducati,” TNT Spo🐼rts’ Neil Hodgson said about Marquez.
“Inconsistent through practice, mistakes, crashes. Crashed out of🐻 the sprint race.
“He never looked comfortable at any point.
“There were 🔥flashes of the old Marquez, trying to make his time up on the braking. He m🦩issed the apexes.
“We saw a few aerial views where you could see the exits. He’d gain on entry, gain two bike le✃ngths on the way in, but lose five൩ on the way out.
“You know when Marc is having a bad weekend because he rides it🐓 like a Honda, and it doesn’t work.”
Marquez was fifth for much of Sunday’s race before overtaking Aleix Espargaro in the ꧂latter stages.
He was closing in on Pecco Bagnaia, who completed the podium, but ran out of time𓃲.
Marquez details Espargaro battle
Marquez told TNT Sports: “This weekend, honestly, we w🐭orked super hard with the team and they did an amazing job.
“We started with our ꦕbase but, for some reason, and 🅠we need to understand why, we were super far at this track.
ไ“Step by step, I felt better. And they gave to me what I needed. They un🎶derstood in a perfect way.
“That meant that, in the race, we were closer to the top ♊guys esꦛpecially in the first 10 laps.
“When the tyres dropped - especially Bastianini and Jorge Martinꦆ - they were super fast. But Pecco wasn’t far.
“I’m happy with fourth but unfortunately, yesterday, we missed another fourth place in the sprint race. But o𒁃kay. We need to keep going.”
Marquez was asked if a long-runn🦩ing scrap with Espargaro, which he eventually won, cost him the chance to challenge the podium trꦉio.
“From the beginning, I 💞understood that something was wrong in acceleration,” he said.
“We had a small prꦜoblem there.🎃 But we’ve already understood why.
“But yes, I was struggling on accelerat💖ion and I arrived too late o🦩n the brakes.
“For that reason, I overtook 𝕴[Espargaro] on Corner 3,4. There, you don’t🌌 need acceleration.
“Apart from that, the fourth place was a go🀅od result.”
Marquez asseses his half-season
The𒅌 MotoGP season is now at its half-way stage, with 10 rounds gone and another 10 to ꦆcome.
Marquez is yet to winജ a sprint or a grand prix on his new machine.
He has slipped𒁏 to fourth in the standings, 6ꦅ2 points away from championship leader Martin.
He is, however, always the fastest rider on the year-old🍸 Ducati and often mixing with the factory bike.
Marquez 🅺assessed his own half-a-season: “Not bad, not bad. Some mistakes.
“Some which are nꦇormal with a new bike, and some which I should have avoided, like yesterday’s. But we are human.
“I am enj⛦oying it wit🍰h this bike. We’re always in the top five positions.
“We are always the top🤪 GP23 bike, and we are close to the ‘24 bikes. Let’s see if we can keep going.”
James was a sp♔orts journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
