Alex Marquez and Marc Marquez finished atop the times on Friday at the MotoGP Thai Grand Prix, furtherꦑing the humorous rivalry ꧃between the two.

Since last year’s Barcelona test, a joke has🔯 existed in the Marquez and Gresini camps where whichever rider beats the other will deliver a particular one-fingered gesture to the other.

None were delivered after 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Marquez beat 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez 🧜to the top spot in Practice in Buriram on Friday (28 February), but the former insisted that,ও should he beat his older sibling in the Grand Prix then such a gesture could be dug out.

“Sunday? Then, yes,”168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Gresini Racing’s Marquez said after Practice in Buriram.

“But not one! Four in a row,” he joked.

“It will be a nice problem to have. I think it w⛄ill be a great show.

“It was a good day, it was double-Marquez leading, but at the end if you see the championship we are all in the same position with zero points, so we need to keep ಞcalm. There are many weekends in front of us and many things to improve.

“Qualifying will be important especially herﷺe with the heat that we will have tomorrow and even more on Sunday. To be in the front row will be the key for the Sprint but especially for the long race.”

Can Marc Marquez beat Alex Marquez at Thailand MotoGP?

On the side of Marc Marquez, t🎐he eight-time World Champion conceded that being beaten in times by his brother is at least preferable to being 👍beaten by someone else.

“Of course, if somebody beats you you are never happy,” he said. “But when it’s youℱr brother, it’s ok.

“Honestly, I’m happy for him. He’s riding in a good way. Already🌜 in the pre-season he was riding in a very good way, and I think it will not be the last time that ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚhe will beat me this year.

“He’s fast and I expect him to fight for the podium, an𒈔d why not some victory? It would be su𓆉per nice.”

The old😼er Marquez added that, while his brother’s speed in pr🎶eseason testing was impressive, by now it is no longer a surprise.

“The biggest surprise of the pre-season wa🍬s my brother,” he said. “But it’s not a surprise anymore, because he was fast in Catalunya, he was fast in Malaysia.

“You could say ‘Okay, it was a 🔴circuit that he rides well at’. But he was fast here, he was fast again today. So, it’s🐈 not anymore a surprise.”

Speed there, but Alex Marquez needs better pace

Although Marquez was hapꦕpy with his time-topping one-lap speed, he was hoping for gains in terms of consistency before Saturday’s Sprint and Sunday’s Grand Prix.

“It was a good day for the position, honestly speaking, and it’s like it is, but about the feeling it was not the best day – I was struggling in the morning already and also in the aft⛦ernoon on race pace,” he said.

“It’s true that maybe we were a little 🤪bit too optimistic trying a few things to improve our base test bike and it was not working. But we had some doubts after the second day of testing, so [we thought] why not try aga꧒in on Friday with different conditions, but it wasn’t really working and I feel more confident with my base setup of the tests in Malaysia and [Thailand].

“So, it’s what we will work on tomorrow.

“We have the speed, we need the consistency. We need to 🌠improve the race pace.

“Mar꧒c [Marquez] is super-fast in that point, and we need to be more clos🐷e to him, so we have work to do this afternoon trying to see the data from him and try to see in which areas he is able to make more difference.”

He added that ꦜthe speed was enough to calm him after a confidence-inspiring preseason.

“The preseason gives to yo♈u confidence, and to be first on Friday gives to you calmꦓ,” he explained.

“Okay, the things that you were [doing]🐟 in the test are working, so it gives to you calm, and also confidence.

“We♚ will try tomorrow to not override with this confidence, we need also to pay attention and not relax.

“But starting like this on Friday gives to me calm to keep working, and to know that we ⛦are🅷 doing the job in the proper way.”

Fina♔l꧃ly, he explained that the Demosedici GP24 he is riding this year is a bike which encourages the rider to push harder.

“It’s a bike that, when you are pushing more and more, it’s b♚etter and better,” he said.

“When you are slower you have more problems, when you are faster it looks like it’s a bike that gives to you more and more confid𒀰ence – this is something super-great.

“So, I think we have a good base, we need to move a bit less, we will learn 🐓from this day, and tomorrow we will try to make another step to be more consistent.”