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

But the German hopes Marquez,𝓰 who suffered 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 the German Gran♋d Prix grid, with Marquez joining Rins and Joan 🌜Mir on the sidelines.
Rins has undergone a second operation on the compl🅘icated leg fractures he suffered in Mugello today (Thursday).
“I wish ꧟a speedy recovery to Alex. I think he's under the knife more or less right now, so hope everything goes well an🍒d he can recover,” said Bradl.
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“We will try to do our best in the meantime and we all know that the situation is not going to be easy. All we ca♛n do is try to stay calm, do our job and trying to stay healthy.”
On Marqu🧸ez’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 hasꦇ are not ready for that level.
“But he's trying, yꦰou 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-ti🌊me world champion in terms of how he h📖as to ride the bike.
"Maybe this circuit is going to be a little bit better, but realistica🌌lly speaking it's going to be hard to fight for the podium.
“In the meantime, I cannot gi🌼ve him advice, but I would like him to take controllable riskꦜ.”
While Marquez suffered a range of accidents in Germany, the f💙inal (warm-up) incident, which left him with a finger fracture, was a type of highside rarely seen in modeꦫrn MotoGP.
Bradl said he had worked on eജlectronic 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 front-end confidence, will take time to solve.
“I have not been riding the bike since the Mondayܫ 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 feelꦕing confident at all. We need to push on the front and everything we are doing is not coming natural.
“We have played around with electronics [to help prevent 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."
Brad▨l 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 wo꧂uld 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 and has s🌠een Valentino Rosꦕsi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.