Marc Marquez reveals cause of COTA lead crash
When 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez took the lead for the first time as a Gresini Ducati rider at the midway stage of Sunday’s Americas MotoGP, his eighth COTA victory and first MotoG꧂P win since 2021 looked wi෴thin reach.
But just moments later the eight-tim🦩e world champion was dumped on the ground after suddenly losing the front at🐷 Turn 11.
“We need to take the positives. We were fighting in that ꦿtop group, we were trying to lead the race. But unfortunately, the feeling today was not the best,” Marquez said before revealing a front brake issue had forced him to p▨ump the lever multiple times going into corners and eventually caught him out.
“I was struggling a lot with the front brakes. For that 💛reason, I said ‘OK, try to lead the race and let's see if it improves’. But when I arrived at Turn 11, I again had that bad feeling and needed to brake 3-4 times.
“That’s why I increased🍸 the speed and lost the front. But apart from that, the feeling during all the weekend was good. We keep improving, In the warm up we did a change that also was helping me, so I’m happy.”
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Marquez had been a key player in a ten-lap brawl until ꦗthat point, losing a sidepod during early contact with Jack Miller, then being lucky to stay upright when a failed in༺itial lunge for the lead resulted in contact with Jorge Martin.
Whether Marquez would have been able tಌo contain a charging Maverick Vinales, who fought from eleventh to victory, if he hadn’t crashed is impossible to say. But the 31-year-old acknowledged 🍨‘the speed was there’ after ‘recovering twice’.
“Unfortunately at the first corner, I went wide [due to contact between other rider🦹s] and many riders overtook me. Then I recovered like two times,” Marquez said.
“I recovered one timeꦆ, but then I had to slow down a lot to not hit Marti𝔍n. And then Bagnaia overtook me again. Then I came back again.
"So the pace was th🌠ere, the level was ꧒there and the speed was there. This is the most important.
“Now we go to Jerez, we will kꦿeep improving and let's see what we can do there. Step by step we are closer to the top guys.”
Marquez, runner-up to Maverick Vinales in the Saturday Sprint, wa💝s again the dominant GP23 rider up ꦅuntil his accident.
The ಞ#93 has now slipped to eighth in the world championship, 44 points from Jorge Martin, who fꩲinished in fourth place on Sunday.
Peter has been in the paddockꦬ for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and 🐓Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
