Marc Marquez clarifies “misunderstanding” - “It was not a crash!”
Marc Marquez explains why initial suggestions that he crashed🅺 we🐼re wrong.
While the timing screens suggested 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez suffered his first Ducati crash during day one of the Sꦉepang test, he later revealed it didn't💞 happen.
A message on the official timing stated Marquez had a fall at Turn 15, midway through the first of three days of MotoGP testing in Malaysia.
But the new Gresini ri😼der later insisted: “In the final corner, th⛎ey called it a crash but it was not a crash!
“It was a technical issue. I w𒐪ent in the gravel. B🦩ut straight, not crash!
“Apart from t﷽hat I had♊ a problem in Turn 9, a save.
“I went in the box.꧑ There are some tricks with the Ducati which they explained to me.
“I said: ‘What is going on there?’
“Th🦩ey explained to me something I need to learn. I had confidence, I jammed the gear, and I had 🍒that moment.”
He added in an interview with Dorna: “No♍, it was a misunderstanding. It was not a small crash. It was jus🎶t another issue on the bike. Then I stopped again.
“It will arri🍃ve, a crash, but this was not the day!”
Gigi Dall’Ign🔥a, the Ducati Corse boss, was spotted in the Gresini garage as the team and factoryꦐ technical staff worked to solve repeated technical problems that dogged Marquez’s opening day.
“Oꦓne of the secrets of Ducati is that they take care of all th𒉰e bikes,” Marquez said.
“Of course, the🧔 factory riders, they will be more in the box. But if you had an issue, a prob🐠lem, they take care of all the riders.
“This is one of the secrets. It’s the 🐟way to learn, to f🦩ix the problem for all the bikes.”
The first day🌳 of testing for Marquez in S🌼epang did not go smoothly.
He was ninth-fastest, +0.670s off the pace-setter J♏orge Maꦜrtin, and experienced a few technical problems.
“Today was a busy day, a strange day,” Marquez said. “We 🎶had, with the team, many♐ issues.
“But the good thing is that the team r🌸eacted in a good way. They fixed 💞everything.
“But everyth🔥ing that [could have happened], happened today. We wereജ not able to work in a good way.
“In the last hour of the afternoꦿon was when we did some laps in a row. We started t𓄧o feel better with the bike.
“Most importantly, this was the first d𒅌ay of testing, and the team worked in a good way and fixed [the problems] in a very professional way.
“Today I worked a bit with the foot rest. It was the one that I felt most uncomfortable. There was a plan to work with the handlebars but ther༒e wasn’t time. We worked on the rear brake, maybe I can improve there.
“The front brake, also, we worked on a lot. It’s𝓀 one of thꦕe points where I take the most care [with] the feeling.
“It’s under🌊standing the way to ride. How I can adapt to the bike, how the bike can adapt to me.
“The bike is very different. In the end, for a rider, when you ride well in a circuit, it will be good for any bik♔e.
“When you st꧒ruggle - I struggle here in Malaysia in my history - the feeling is different.”
One🐓 of the key differences since Marquez swapped Honda for Ducati will be the ability to share data among eight bikes, many of whom are expected to fight at the front.
“To compare with oth👍er Ducatis? Some corners I am the same, some corners I am a bit slow,” Marquez sa🎶id.
“Nꦜow, I need ☂to adjust and understand what they are doing.
“You always look for quality laps but today I was not 🌳able to. It was the first rhythm. It is the first day, I have two more days to adapt myself to the bike.
“With Honda, the d♉ata was open. But to have more bikeღs…
“Today I didn’t compare. 🐽Just one lap with Jorge Martin, just to understand what he was doing because he was the fastest Ducati.
“Still, I was sup🌱er far in som🍌e parts of the track.
“I started to work with the set-up and not worry about the others. I was riding with a standard Ducati set-up, I 🅰didn’t touch any♒thing.
“Frankie Carche♌di, my new technician, needs 🍎to understand me. And I need to understand Frankie too.”
Unlike Valencia where Marquez shone at the postseason test, Sepang is not a track that the eight-time world c💙hampion𝔉 particularly excels at.
“Here, the riding stꦆyle changes a lot,” Marquez said. “The way to open the gas, the way to use the lines, is very different.
“I was used to riding one way with Honda here. The way to ride a Du🌸cati here, to take the maximum profit, is completely different.
“In the morning I was riding with a Honda style. The bike was shaking, struggling. In the aꦺfternoܫon I started to understand better.
“With Honda, you use꧟ a lot the front. With Ducati, you us🥃e the rear.
“I was used to riding with the front, 𒁃there was a massive pick-up with Honda.”
Marquez will be back🦄 on track on Wednesdayꦰ for the second day of testing in Sepang.
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