Marc Marquez says “totally unexpected” Misano win “impossible” without rain
“Without those drops it was impossible to fight with tꩲhe top guys”
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez says his “totally unexpected” victory at the San Marino MotoGP “was impossible” without the drops of rain that impacted th🌳e early part of the race.
The Gresini ridℱer felt he had “ruined” his weekend when he crashed in Q2 and lওeft himself ninth on the grid.
Marquez struggled in the sprint to make progreﷺss and could only come up with fifth.
Light rain in the early s🐽tages of the grand pr💜ix brought Marquez into contention for victory on Sunday, however, with the Spaniard taking the lead from Francesco Bagnaia on lap eight of 27.
Knowing he had strong pace for the second half of the race, Marq🐻uez defended Bagnaia well before streaking 3.1s clear at the cheque♉red flag to score a second win in a week in 2024.
But Marquez admitted aft🅠er the race that without the iffy conditions he would not have been able to fight at the front.
“This one was totally unexpected, espec💎ially because starting in ninth place, without those drops [of rain] it was impossible to fight with the top guys,” said Marquez, who is now 53 points off the championship lead.
“We knew that our second part of the race was super strong and for me, the most important thing… ok, one point is to lea🃏d the race, but the other point is to open a gap to the world champion and to Pecco who is super-fast here.
“I was ﷽able to ride in a very good way,𝔍 very fast and defend in the first part of that second part of that race. And then attack in the last laps.”
When the rain was at its worst on lap seven, Jorge Martin elected to pit for his wet 🏅bike while running in second.
Marquez says he had no intention of pitting at that point despite having also seen Franco Morbidelli crash🍌 out of third in the wet, bu൲t admits had conditions worsened on the following lap he would have boxed.
“No,” he 𝓀replied when 💜he thought about pitting when Martin did.
“Of course, at one point if there was one more lap raini🎀ng like this then maybe it’s time to go in.
“But especially when ♏I saw that nobody went in and only one ri𝄹der [did] you need to stay out and this is what I did.
“I contr🧸olled in a good way, but then on the next lap is when I attacked. I gave everything. I saw some riders crashed because it was sꦯuper wet in Turns 1/2, but we managed it well.”
Marquez adde💃d: "During the whol🦩e weekend we had the speed. But we made a mistake in qualifying.
"It is there that we need to improve, in t𓂃wo weeks.
"Apart from that, when I saw the drops on my visor 🌟and the asphalt, I decided t🐟o take a risk..."
