The Austrian MotoGP Sprint appeared to be coming towards Marc Marquez as it crossed over the halfway point but, just as he started t꧋o catch the leader, he🎀 crashed.

Marquez had started well and was third in the opening stages. He lost some ground in the first few laps to Francesco Bagnaia and Jorge Martin, but after the latter served a penalty for cutting the 2a-2b chicane, the Gresini Ducati rider was promot💎ed to second place.

He had 1.5 seconds ahead of him to Bagnai🎶a, and on lap nine reduced that deficit by 0.3 seconds. Soon after, he crashed at turn three.

“It’s a difficult one tꩲo accept, 𒊎but I’m happy about this Saturday,” Marquez told MotoGP.com.

“The performance was there. I know what was the mistake. I said in the parc ferme [after quali🌳fying] that I’m half-a-step behind the top guys, and 🉐in the Sprint I took too much risk.

“I even thought that I was able to catꦐch Pecco [Bagnaia] in the last laps because I felt super-good with the bike.”

After the race, Bagnaia told MotoGP.com 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:that he was managing the gap, and changing engine maps to understand things for Sunday’s race in order to explain his time l♕oss to Marquez.

Marquez, though, said he was just beginning to attack when he cra𝓰shed.

“I felt good, and I knew that the last laps of the Sprint would bꦺe my strong point because with the used tyre I feel better tha🔴n with the new one,” he said.

“So it’s there where I try to manage the si💫tuation, in the beginning. Then, when I put my attack, and in fact I was on a good⭕ pace, I did a mistake at turn three.

“I was doing a ve🐽ry solid wee🔴kend, but we did a mistake in the worst moment.”

As a result of his mistake, Marquez suggested that he will try to take a differ🍰ent approach in the Grand Prix.

“I saw during all the weekend that they are half-a🌟-step in front of us,” he said. “Today I tried to recover that half-a-step, but I take too much risk. So, tomorrow, the target is to win that third place of the podium and finish the race.”