Marc Marquez “should scare” rivals, gap “maybe worse than we realised”

Fear expressed for MotoGP rivals after Marc M💞arquez's start in Thailand

Marc Marquez
Marc Marquez

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez’s Moto🧜GP rivals should fear his dominance aft✨er a breath-taking opening round, they have been told.

On his factory Ducati debut, Marquez claimed pole then won the sprint and the gra🍰nd🦩 prix at the Thailand MotoGP last weekend.

He sits top of the standings already - arguably the best rider ever on the best bike of🌌 today, a fearsome combination.

His closest competitor on Sunday in Bu🅠riram was his brother Alex Marquez, who finished second.

“That plays🏅 into Marc’s hands,” Peter McLaren told the Crash MotoGP podcast. “Ifඣ there’s anybody he’d like to be fighting with…

“If there’s anybody Marc wants between himself and Pecco, i꧟t’s his brother!”

He added: “We never saw Marc pushing the limit of the bike! There was one mo꧒ment in Saturday practice when he tried a different setup, then they realised ‘we don’t need to push the🍸 limit’.

“Pecco said ‘Marc was playing with us’ and that’s how a lot of people saw it. He rode at the pace n🔯eeded to win, and that’s it.

“Take Marc out of the equation and we have an even fight between the sꩲatellite🍎 Ducatis.

“But Marc looks a step ahead of everybody.”

Marc Marquez 'should scare some of his rivals'

Marquez claimed afterwards that he felt like the best version of himself🌠 since 2020, the year where his injury nightmare began.

Lewis Duncan added: “It says a lot about𝄹 where he’s at, in his head, now.

“For the last few years we have seen♕ a rider who is reserved about his potential after the injury.

“He never spoke about 2020 as a year🙈 where he co⭕uld have kicked on.

“It should scare some of his rivals.

Analysis: Marc Marquez’s rivals were spared an even more brutal beatdown

“If that’s the mind-set he’s in, that’s the form he’s ⛦feeling, on a bike that is infinitely better than the Honda ever was, you look at his rivals and think ‘how could they poss🐲ibly even think about getting on level terms with him’.

“Bagnaia being on the back foot has maybe exaggerated the gap a bit. The practice analysis after Friday showed there was und⛄er two tenths between them.

“I♛n theory, Pecco should have been closer in the sprint and the grand prix.

“To be that far off, straight away - he was a second behind second-place after three or four laps - is a massive amount just to get ahead of✨ Alex Marquez!

“It’s maybe worse than we realised in the winter.

“The challeng🅷e facing everyone is a lot, lot harder.

“I didn’t think Pecco could win [in Thailand] but he needed to be in the ballpark. But he starts even further back than we thought possible. Thatไ’s where the rea🐼l concern will be.”

Worryingly for everybody outside of t𒉰he Marꦰquez camp, the second MotoGP round on March 14-16 is in Argentina.

The championship heads to the Circuﷺit of the Americas afterwards.

That means after his dominant start, Marquez heads to two of 🌸hi💃s classic favourites next.

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