MotoGP Assen: Bradl: “Lot of respect for Marc Marquez, I know the weak point of the bike”

But the German hopes Marquez, who suffe🦄red five falls at the Sachsenring before withdrawing from the race, will take ‘controllable risk’ at Assen this weekend.
Bradl’s team-mate Takaaki Nakagami was the only Honda rider to make th♉e German Grand Prix grid, with Marquez joining Rins and Joan Mir on the sidelines.
Rins has undergone a second operation on the complicated leg fractures he🎀 suffered in Mugello to𒁏day (Thursday).
“I wish a speedy recovery to Alex. I think heꦜ's under the knife more or less right now, so hope everything goes well and he can recover,” said Bradl.
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“We will try to do our best in the mea🃏ntime and we all know that the situation is not🐠 going to be easy. All we can do is try to stay calm, do our job and trying to stay healthy.”
On Marquez’s crash-strewn Sachsenring weekend, Bradl said: “A lot of 🐟respect because he's still giving his 100%, even more. Even though he realises that the bike and the tools he has are not ready for that level.
“But he's trying, you know. I hope that he can stay healthy and he's good to♏ ride this weekend and his approach is 💟going to be the same probably.
🎀“We will not change an eight-time world champion in terms of how he has to ride the bike.
"Maybe this circuit is goingꦜ to be a little bit better, but realistically speaking it's going to be hard to fight for the podium.
“In the meantime, I cannot give him advice, but I would like hജim to ꦫtake controllable risk.”
While Marque💫z suffered a range of accidents in Germany, the final (warm-up) incident, which left him with a finger fracture, was a type of higꦜhside rarely seen in modern MotoGP.
Bradl said he had worked on electronic changes in a recent test to try and mitigate a repeat but believes the root cause is a chronic lack of rear grip which, like a ꧂lack of f✤ront-end confidence, will take time to solve.
“I have not been riding the bike since the Monday test in Jerez. So I jumped on the bike in Misano and after 3-4 laps I realised the weaknesses of the bike, that in lean angle we're not feeling confident at a💫ll. We need to push on the front and everything we are doing is not coming natural.
“We have played around with electronics [to help pr💛event the highsides]… But it's not the electronics, in my opinion, that are holding us back, what we all need is much more grip on the rear tyre. In all areas."
Br𒀰adl added: "I know where is the weak point of the bike and that's how I'm going to ride it. I'm not trying to destroy myself this weekend and it's kind of a surviving time we have right now. How long will be this surviving time, I cannot tell you...
“I think it can be fixed and I'm sure also Honda has the power and the equipment to do so. But it is a matter of 💫time.
“I think we have seen that our performance was not dropping massively in 1-2-3 months. It was a process over some years I would say and now we will take probably a similar time to get back at a♈ decent level.”

Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years aඣnd has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the f♌orefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.