Thailand MotoGP: Marc Marquez says he is “playing with the bike” and has “no pain”
The Repsol Honda rider qualified for the Thailand MotoGP in eighth - an error on the final corner, when he briefly lost the rear, cost him a potential challenge of pole-sitter 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marco Bezzecchi.
Marquez shone last week at the Japanese MotoGP, qualifying on pole then finishing fourth, after missing eight races to undergo a fourth arm opera🍸tion which had threatened his career.
“I feel something more race by race, this is the most important thing,” he said after qualifyꦗing.
“My target♑ when I came back was ‘extra limit’ and🐼 the test in Misano was ‘extra limit’. ‘Extra limit’ means the muscles are too weak but, step by step and race by race, I feel better and I control the bike better.
“[Friday] I felt better than [Saturday]. And I know that on [Sunday] I will feel ♍worse than [Saturday].
“But I know that next week I wiꦚll relax and will have taken another step. This is the target.
“I have started to play with the bike, to slide on the♍ left corner, to shake the bike on braking points. For a long time I never did this.”
Marquez: "I did the perfect strategy"
He s♑aid about qual𓃲ifying at Buriram: “I did the perfect strategy. It is difficult with only one tyre - with the first one, I did 30.5s. Then I put on a new one. But when we went out there were Ducati riders - they have the bike, they don’t need a slipstream!
“Then we started to play. I found a ♏good lap. I came good, I came fast.
“But on the last💮 turn there w♏as a mistake, like in FP3.
“More or less the same mistake as Q2.
“We know what hap♔pened. Unlucky. We will fix it for [Sunday] but we couldn’t fix it for Q2.
“With two rear 𒅌tyres you have more possibilities.
“All weekend I was pushing in front - for a long time, I was not♈ doing this.
“In FP2 I pushed in front of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia. In FP3 I pushed in front of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Miller.
“I was pushing and doing the laps alone.
“But the limit of the b🔯ike is the limit of the bike! If you want extra, I have to find a way to be faster.
“A smaller slipstream is always helpful.
“With one tyre you have only one ꦬchance. It was a goodꦺ lap but I made a mistake.”
Can Marquez finish on the podium?
Marquez assessed his chances at the Thailand MotoGP: “On dry, I don’t feel bad. Not to finish on the podium beꦅcause we are not r🍌eady. But I am enjoying it.
“The lap times are there. I am starting to enjoy it o𝓡n the bike. I don’꧒t have pain. I am saving some small mistakes at the front.
“If it’s wet everything is open. If it’s dry it is more useful for my physical condit♏ion.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything꧟ from American sports, to football, to F1.
