MotoGP Jerez: Marc Marquez: 5th-10th is our position now, past is the past
Bu꧟t there have been only four podiums in the 18, injury-interrupted, races since and the Repsol Honda rider doubts that statistic will change at Jerez on Sunday.
Still struggling with front🧜 feeling on the new RCV, Marquez used all his guile to hitch a tow from faster riders in each of his three Saturday sessions.
The last of those, behind reigning world champion and pre-race fa✅vo🍨urite Fabio Quartararo, allowed him to claim a competitive-sounding fifth place on the grid.
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But the Spaniard is under no illusions as to the task ahead and claimed a ♛top-five finish will be a good rꦛesult in the race.
“We are not ready to fight for the podium,” Marquez said. “A good result will be to try to be in the top five. But even like this will be very very, very dif🐬ficult. From 5th-10th is our position at the moment and it’s where we will try to fight.”
Marc Marquez: ‘The past was the past’
The eight-time world❀ champion insisted he’s not getting frustrated at having to s𝔉et his sights on such lower targets.
“You onl𒊎y get frustrated if the expectation is too h🍃igh. My expectation today was to try to be on the third row and I finished second row, so I'm happy,” Marquez said.
“Yesterday I was 19th and in Portimao I finished 16-second behind the leader, so your target needs to bဣe optimistic always, but at🎃 the same time try to achieve what you can.
“And tomorrow wha♔t we can achieve is 5th, 6th, 7th place. In a good race. Not in a bad 👍race. So it’s what we will try.
“Of course, I would like to say I'm ready to win or fight the podium, but now we are not ready. The past was the past. Now is now and in the p🗹ast everything was easier. Now everything is more difficult, so we need to work.”
After trying some radical changes on Friday, without success, Marqꦇuez and his crew went back to a normal base set-up🎶 for day two.
“With this new bike you need to ride in a different way. Yesterday, we tried to adapt the bike in a radical way to my riding style, but I cannot ride this bike like this, so today we came back to the way that the bike wants you to ride. To what is more-o🦄r-less the same base for all four Hondas.
“It's true that in my personal case still, I'm still struggling a lot with the front. The turning is slow. It’s there where we🌞 need to understand because as soon I try to push a bit more, then it's easy to crash.”
Rejecting talk that design of the new bike was too heavily influenced by the other Honda riders, Marquez admitted the new machine is fundamentally different from those he won 5ღ9 races with from 2013-2021.
“I heard some comments that ‘they didn’t follow the comments of Marc’, but I agreed with that cha♔nge,” Marquez said. “But it's true that with the [old] bike everything w🍰as more natural.
“It was a bike that I rode since 2013, some evolutions, but the character was the same. Now it's a b✅ig difference, and even Honda is trying to understand many things.
“Pol for example. He's riding in a diffe🍌rent way, he's fast even though he's starting 13th. He’s riding maybe better than me with this new bike because I think he can ride it a bit similar to what he had in KTM.
“Last year I won three ♓races, but in Austin it was also possible to win [again ♈this year], Germany is coming up and the Misano win was because Bagnaia crashed. Then I did a podium in Aragon.
“So it’s still in the left tracks [where I’m strongest]… like Austin, you could𒁃 give another bike to me and I would be fast there. It’s like here with Nakagami; always at Jerez, he’s riding well and fast.
“So there is something also with the riding style I need to impro𒁃ve and I try ♋to push myself to understand this as well.”
After missing two races due to diplopia and taking a best of f🍌ifth in the other three, Marquez starts the Jerez race just eleventh in the world championship standings, 38 points from Quartararo and Alex Rins.
LCR’s Takaaꦚki Nakagami has qualified in seventh place, with Pol Espargaro 13th, wild-card Stefan Bradꦫl 20th and Alex Marquez 22nd.
While Marc Marquez remaineꩵd upright afte🐓r Friday's double fall, Espargaro, Bradl and Alex Marquez all suffered front-end accidents on Saturday.
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