Alex Marquez says his "really stupid" crash on the sighting la𓄧p at the MotoGP Thai Grand Prix was the result of exploring an alternat🗹e racing line in the wet.

The Gresini rider crashed at Turn 11 on the💃 lap to the g🐷rid ahead of Sunday’s 26-lap grand prix at Buriram.

Marquez was able to st🍸art the race 🌃on his second bike, which had to be converted from a dry set-up to wet, but had to launch from last on the grid instead of ninth.

He managed to fight his way b✃ack up the pack on his GP23 to complete the top 10.

“Was a really stupid mistake,” Marquez ༒told the media, including wuqian0821.com, on Sunday.

“First of all, and I already said to the team,⛄ sorry because it was my mistake.

“I have to say ﷽it was not a mistake of ꩲlosing the concentration or something.

“I mean, there was a line that I had alr🐻eady in my mind to try because in the warm-up I was cutting the kerb in Turn 1𝔉1 all the laps and when I was going to the grid there was more water.

“So, I said ‘I will try with a little bit of gas, but not fu𓆉ll, to go there and s🅘ee how is the grip in that kerb’.

“But when I went in there it was like ice and when🤪 I realised I wa🐈s on the ground.

“Later on everything was so complicated, I took the other bike that was dry and we again the full rain set-ꦍup.

“Starting fr🐲om last, I did a normal race, the feeling was not brilliant. So, I just tried to finish the race and get my maximum.

“I wa♍s lucky to crash in that lap, because it was in my mind to try that line.

“So, I would have crashed in the warm-up lap or the🐠 first lap of the race when everybody is coming.

“So, I was lucky for that. We need to take this experience, I need to not put shit on mysel🌼f. That mistake, a MotoG🐽P rider cannot make.”

Marquez says even without the crash dropping him out of his origina⛦l qualifying position he doesn’t believe he could have done more than eighth as his feeling in the wet on the GP23 is “not really good”.

“I thin🍌k today starting from P9 and not from P23, our position was eighth, normal,” Ma🔯rquez, who won the 2023 Silverstone sprint in wet conditions, added.

“With this ’23 bike, I don’t have a really good feeling. With the 2022 I was feeling super strong in the wet,ඣ and on the Honda also.

“But with this ’23 we a🐈re still🀅 missing something on the set-up.

“So, if we have an opportunity to ride in the wet we will adjust it. If not, we ne📖ed to think something about that because I’m not feeling really good in the wet.”