Although he finished the Australian MotoGPও, Marquez stಞruggled to maintain his pace after using a soft rear tyre.

The eight-time world champion, who is joining Gresini Ducati next season, had also suffered several crashes in recent rounds which has impacted his feeling with t🎃he RC213V massively. 

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Asked what is missing this year ahe♈ad of the ThaiGP at Buriram, Marquez said: “The feeling. I can’t say one point. I’m missing the feeling. 

“It’s difficult to understanꦍd the limit of the bike. Sometimes you crash without warning. It gives you less confidence and less feeling.

“In Phillip Island I was pushing. If you need to take extra risk, you normally pr🔜efer to do it in slow corners, because in the fast corners if you crash? 

“Normally it’s easy to get inju𒅌red. So we’ll start like in Phillip Island - attacking. But attacking doesn’t mean a good re❀sult. 

“It means, with a good mentality, trying to push from the beginning. Let’s see if we start in a g🦂ood way, in the top 10 would b💟e good.”

One of Marquez’s best rounds of the 2023 season was at the inauജgural Indian MotoGP, and the Repsol Honda rider says he will start FP1 with the same set-up.

“We will start more or less like in India. The rear casing is the same as India. I’d struggled 🅰with it in the past but, in India, I managed. 

“It’s true that, with this ca♐sing, Joan was riding a bit better. Immediately in FP1 you understand if you’re on a good pace or if you want to ch♛ange the setting.”

Marquez sees possibilities if it rains

One of the ‘wet-weather masters’ in MotoGP, Marquez could take advantage of th꧃e inconsistent weather that seems to be in store thi🍰s weekend.

Honda’s window for winning is very small at present, but with Marquez still one of the fastest riderജs, wet conditions could give him a chanc🥃e at claiming an unlikely victory in 2023.

Marquez said: “If it’s wet, the possibilities are higher🌜.✤ But it’s true that, this year in the wet, I was fast but wasn’t riding in a good way. 

“I don’t feel the way to ride fast. Sometimes I ride fast in the wet because I know where to brake, where to opꦍen the gas, where🐬 I need to lean. 

“But not by the feeling of the bike. Last year the feeling was super good. This year in the wet I am okay, but the feeling is not good. ൩;

“For that ܫreason, in Silverstone for example, in the wet we st♏ruggled a lot.”