Marc Marquez on Jerez MotoGP crash: ‘A mistake… but I don’t understand it’

Marc Marquez crashed on lap three of Spanish GP

Marc Marquez, Ducati Corse, 2025 Spanish MotoGP
Marc Marquez, Ducati Corse, 2025 Spanish MotoGP
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Ducati MotoGP rider Marc Marquez ♏admits his crash out of the Spanish Grand Prix was “a mistake” but one “I don’t underst♐and” because “I was cruising”.

The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:factory Ducati rider didn’t get a good launch from second on the grid and dropped behind team-mate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pecco Bagnaia.

This led to a ♋hard battle from Turn 7 to Turn 11, which ended in slight contact and Bagna𓆉ia holding the position.

Then on lap three, while running third🗹 still, Marquez crashed going through Tur🦩n 8.

He rejoined the race to finish 12th, but is now one point off new championship leader Alex Marquez 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:following his maiden victory.

It’s the second time this season 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez has crashed while in contention for victory, but unlike in America he says he doesn’ꦉt have an obvious explanation for t💞his one.

“It’s a mistake and we nee🐬d to learn aboutꦉ it and try to avoid it for the future if we want to fight for the championship,” he said.

“We have a lot of speed, but one more 🐟time… Austin I understood why I crashed, but today I don’t understand.

“I need to analyse it because I was not attacking, I was cruising just like I did in the first races behind them because that I know that the second 🦂part of the race is my strong point.

“But it’s like this, we need to accept it.”

Offering some theories on why he c🌠rashed, Marquez adde🃏d: “Just maybe - I didn’t check the data - but maybe I was one degree more angle.

“I was behind two riders andജ it was maybe the first time in the weekend I was behind riders, and maybe the bike changed a bit and I didn’t think about it.

“So, for that reason I ma𒁃de that mistake. The important thing is✱ the speed is there, but we need to avoid the mistakes.”

Coming off h🍒is fifth successive sprint win in 2025 on Saturday at Jerez and showing strong pace on used tyres in Friday practice, Marquez’s crash likely threw away another victory chance.

But he doesn’t see this as⛎ a negative because he fell while clearly showing h📖e has good speed.

“It makes me happy,” he replied when asked if his pace made his crash more frustratioꦡn.

“Of course, if you don’t have the pace and you crash you have two things to f🐟ix: the crash plus the 💃pace.

“The pace is there🐼, but just we need to avoid the mistakes. Of course, the second part of the race was my strong🎐 point.

“But [I need to] try to learn for the future. But inside the drama, we are only one point behind the leader, which is the most important t♌hing.”

On his battle with Bagnaia, Marquez added: “It was a good one. In the first lap everybody knows it’s super important and here in෴ Jerez we had small contact between Turn 11.

“But apart from that it was a good fight and unluckꦉy we couldn’t continue it to the end.”

ꦕMarquez came to parc ferme at the end of the race to celebrate with his younger brot🏅her Alex after his first MotoGP win, which he says was the only positive from his race.

“It’s the only thing th🔜at today I have a small smile and I’m super happy and super proud for him, especially because h🦋e worked super hard to win a race in MotoGP,” he added.

“It was one of the targets of his career. He won the race, he’s leading again the championship, he’s riding in an amazing way. So, I’m proud of🃏 him.”

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