168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez says the margin for improvement over the rest of the MotoGP Thai Grand Prix wee🐼kend is “small” but is already “on paper” the rider to beat.

The eight-time grand prix world champion topped FP1 at Buriram on Friday morning and was set for a clean sweep in the afternoon until he was 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:pipped by his🐼 brother Alex Marquez by 0.052s.

Ending Friday second overall, Marc Marquez’s race pace is also looking like the strongest of the field - piꦉcking up up where he left off after pre-season testing.

Marc Marquez P2 in Thailand MotoGP practice

Reflecting on his day, he said: “I expected to start in a goo♏d way - or, I was looking to start inꩵ a good way.

“In fact, from the first run I found the same feeling as I was ridꦫing here in the test.

“That 𓂃was important. It’s true that this afternoon with hotter temperatures it was a bit more tricky, but we understand really qui🐭ck the way to fix.

“Good day, solid day, and t🗹omorrow we need to keep going.”

Starting the 🔯weekend strongly, Marquez says the fact he is dialled into the Buriram track after testing means there is little room for improvement over the remainder of the round.

“This 🍎weekend, not much, because we ride 200 laps in the test here,” he added.

“So, ꦜwe start already in💃 the morning and we did 29 low in the first run.

“It’s not the normal way to work ꧒in a weekend because normally you sꦍet up a bike and then you improve a lot.

“But here, the margin is small. It’s true that checking the papers, I saw on the lap times and the race pace that 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pecco [Bagnaia] is very close 🍷to me, which at the moment on paper [I] have the best pacᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚe.

“But the most critical po🧜int, or the most important point, will be qualifying t𝓰omorrow because starting on that front row, maximum second row, will be the target.”

Team-mate Bagnaia was knocked out of♌ the Q2 pl𝓀aces after he was blocked on his final flying lap of Practice by Franco Morbidelli, ending the session 13th.

Ducati’s factory riꦛders will race with the 2024 engine this year, while Marquez acknowledges that his bike is pretty much identi🧜cal to Alex Marquez’s.

“What I understand, but this maybeไ Davide Tardozzi or Gigi [Dall’Ig✱na] can answer better, we are riding with the same bike right now,” he said.

“It’s exactly the same. Of course, now the factor💞y team, we will introduce new things over the season that they are already thinking on how to improve.

“But this first race, the bike is very, very similar. This is ဣwhat I understand, but I don🎃’t know about the mechanics.”

Quotes provided by Crash MotoGP Editor Peter McLaren