Marc Márquez will start seventh on the grid after a rather bumpy Q2 for him since he has barely had a couple of laps of what he calls “decent” since as soon as he left he had a scare in turn 2 in which he did a great save accompanied by a gesture of pain that lasted half a minute and towards the end he had a crash at Turn 6, both curves to the left. He acknowledged that he is not yet “ready to fight for the podium, although we will try to be in the top five club.”
As for the save, the Repsol Honda rider wanted to say that he would have preferred “that it had been a save that closes from the front and with the force of the elbow you lift the bike, because there it would be significant evolution or recovery -of the arm -, but it has been luck, a save a little bit of ‘it goes away and I have fallen on top of the bike’, as I could have fallen outside, but I have made force with my arm and arm, slightly, but it is improving and it is what I’m saying in these last races. “
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“In different actions, in different circuits, in different circumstances I am noticing it, but I am also the first to say that there is still, there are days and months to follow this evolution that is very slow, but the important thing is that it is progressing”, stressed.
“I think we are a bit in the situation we were in at Misano 1, although it is true that the conditions are very different, but we will have to try to find out why and see if on Sunday we can go one step further and, if it is a race in dry, which seems to be … “, explained Marc Márquez.
Regarding the timed “I have lost an opportunity since always in these (mixed) conditions you risk and, for risks, when you do not have enough speed, you have to risk and then it can be that you take the opportunity to be fourth or fifth, or even third, or it may be that you fall. We have risked and the truth is that I did not feel, but hey, I thought ‘I try’, and I have fallen, “he said.
In explaining the crash of his brother Alex and his scare in Q2, Marc Márquez acknowledged that “it was a very different crash from how I fell in Assen or the scare I had or Alex’s crash, because in Assen he was accelerating and here it has been without acceleration and practically without brake, entering “.
“This is where we need to put a bit of temperature on the rear tire, have good grip, but it is true that as the laps go by I have found that confidence again and I think it was more my scare and Alex’s crash, Well, if you look at the first and second lap it means that the tire needs more temperature, maybe the other bikes can go out and do it, but we have to have one, two or three laps and then start pushing “, he highlighted about the problems of the Honda.