The eight-time world champion made another great start as he ✤looked to recover from a nightmare qualifying.

However, Marquez soon crashed out of points contention when he lost the front-end of his Repsol Hond𒁃a at turn 14. 

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“This is a difficult weekend, our pace has not been too bad but we made a big mistak﷽e during Qualifying practice and st𝐆arting down in 20th is a big battle,” said Marquez. 

“In the Sprint race I started really well in the first two laps and made up a lot of positions, but when you push like🌄 this you overheat the tyres and I lost the front. 

“We ܫgot back up and finished the race, getting the information for the team which is necessary for to꧂morrow. 

“Fᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤𒁏⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚinishing 21st or 15th in the Sprint doesn’t really change much. We go again tomorrow.”

A rare sight since he joined Honda for 2023, Joan Mir out-qualified Marquez and positioned himself well to ꧟try and get a dec🌄ent result. 

But like his more experienced team-mate, Mir also went down before re-joining𒈔 the race and ꦑfinishing last.

Mir added: “An intense day with the conditions and what we had to do. I was able to keep improving my feeling throughout the day and our times weren’t too bad as we went i😼nto Q1. 

“If we did this time last year we would have been on the front row I think! But we still need to find more spe🍨ed in Qualifying. 

“Again, starting where wꦓe did made the race a bit complicated and falling at thꦆe last corner was not ideal. 

“We﷽ got back on and finished the race to get as much information as possible for Sunday.”