Marc Marquez on COTA MotoGP crash: ‘I used up championship margin in easy race’

Marc Marquez opens up on 💦Americas GP crash from lead

Marc Marquez, Ducati Corse, 2025 Americas MotoGP
Marc Marquez, Ducati Corse, 2025 Americas MotoGP
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Former MotoGP championship leader Marc Marquez says he used up his points margin “in the worst way” in 🃏“an easy race” af🎀ter crashing out of a win at the Americas Grand Prix.

The 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:factory Ducati rider was aiming to maintain his🥃 100% winning record in 2025 with an eighth grand prix⭕ victory at the Circuit of the Americas on Sunday.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:🌱Following a chaotic delayed start to the race, Marquez grabbed the holeshot from pole and was leading by over two seconds when he crashe🌟d on lap nine of 1🐠9.

Marquez ran over the inside kerb at the Turn 4 right𒁃-hander and tucked the front of his Ducati. He would rejoin,♐ but bike damage forced him to retire on lap 13.

It gifted the victory to team-mate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pecco Bagnaia, while second place for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Marquez means the Gresini ride✤r now leads the championship by a poin𒅌t.

Explaining his crash, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez said: “We did the most difficult thing in the easiest moment of the race, when I was controlling the distance, I cut a bit too much that kerb in Turn 5 and I lost the front. It was completely my mistaꦬke.

“Sorry to the team, I can say only this.

“Positive for us - because I always try to find the positive - is ꧑like we are equal in the c𓆉hampionship, one point behind Alex, so we restart the championship.”

Marquez added that the crash was nothing to do with him having “extra confidence” at that stage of the race, while he laments the fact he used up his 19-point advantage in the championship in “an easy rꦅace”.

“The kerb I already cut some laps before. So, just I cut it too much - I was t꧑oo optimistic,” he said.

“I was fully concentrated, I was ꦓnot with exꦦtra confidence, I was just riding, taking care about the hard brake points where you do some mistakes - like at Turn 12.

“But the rest of the track I felt super safe. I cut th🌄e kerb too much.

“There was the mistake, I lost 25 points, but we need to keep going in the same way, keep th🎶e same speed because I feel fast everywhere, so now tomor𒅌row is a new week.

“We will have a good atmosphere in the family, in training, because we are first and second inಞ the championship.

“We had that margin that we used in the worst way because we used it in an easy race. But at the momen✱t we were there iꦬn the championship.”

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