Alex Marquez on Honda-Ducati: “Same effort, instead of 15th, fighting for podium”

Alex Marquez insists “the effort, the dedication” is “exactly the same” but swapping Honda for Ducati has automatically meant swapping 15th for the podium.
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Alex

The younger Marquez brother claimed his first MotoGP pole position in Argentina then claimed a third-placed fin🍷ish, a💛n emphatic reminder of his potential which was arguably forgotten at Honda.

He spent two disappointing seasons at LCR Honda where he, and even his illustrious brother 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez, were not equipped with the type of machinery th✅at Ducati riders are currently profiting from.

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He comp🐎ared Honda to Ducati: "Well, in the end you go on the bike and it's not easy because you give the same, but having a better bike, instead of fighting for 15th, you are fighting for the podium. It's like that. 

“In the end the effort, the dedication𓆏, the concentration 🍒is exactly the same.”

Gresini Racing rider Marquez assessed the first two weekends🐓 of the MotoGP season: "We have achieved the pole, we have achieved a podium, it has been a top 5 in the sprint and if you ask me before coming [to Argentina] I would have signed on any paper, do have this weekend. I feel happy. 

“I missed the second positio🌌n because Johann Zarco had a little more and that's it.♏ We have to be positive for the future, because we are in constant progression.”

Short of winning his first🐎-ever premier class race, as VR46’s Marco Bezzecchi has done, it has been a dream start to the year for Marquez who entered 2023 needing to justify his place among the world’s elite.

“I did not imagine iღt, is the truth,” he said.&nﷺbsp;

“It’s much better than I imagined and ♑as I said at the b𒀰eginning of the season. I think it is not the real position to be in the top four of the championship, in performance, where we are, I think we are more from five to eight, to be clear.”

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Alex

BT Sport expert Sylvain Guintoli🌃 added: “He is a transformed🧸 rider. Or is he? No, the only thing that has transformed is his bike! He’s jumped on that Ducati and it’s a bike that works for him.

“He’s tall so it works for him, it’s a long bike.

“He posts compe🔯titive times, he’s doing great, in Portimao he fought for the top five. In Argentina he took risks. He’s definitely having fun, the most fun he’s had in years.”

The 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:MotoGP Grand Prix༺ of the Americas is this weekend.

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