Marc Marquez hails “perfect Saturday”, warns “still has some margin” for Thai MotoGP
Factory Ducati riღder made winning start to new season on Saturday

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez branded his sprint win and pole at the 2025 MotoGP Thai Grand Prix as the “perfect Saturday”, but war🍌ns that he has “some margin” still to explore on the Ducati.
The eight-time grand prix world champion topped qualifying and led every lap of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Saturday’s sprint at Buriram, which put him at the top of the champio𝄹nship ⛄standings for the first time since November 2019.
Marquez beat 𓆏his younger brother Alex Marquez by 1.185s and was 3.423s clear of factory team-mate Francesco Bagnaia.
While Marquez was aware of the expectations for him to perform on his 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:factory Ducati debut, he ad꧑mits “somet🐠hing arrived” in terms of pressure ahead of the 13-lap sprint.
“Yeah, of course, today was an important day because expec𒀰tations were high,” he began.
“And I tried to use ꦉthe experience and don’t feel those expectations.
“But in the end, something arrived. We did a perfect Saturday, a sol🦩id Saturday, pole position, s꧟print race victory.
“Plu𝔍s, my brother finished🤪 second. So, I’m even happier.
“But it’s the first Saturday of the year, it’s only a Saturday. Sport can change one day from the other. So, I’m happy but not super happy because I know tomorrow is the important da🎃y.”
When it was put to h🐻im that it looked like he still had something in reserve, Marquez noted that “in🍌 two, three braking points I had some margin” to push.
“It depends, because some💮times if you push at 100% you do mistakes,” he said.
“But I tried to manag🐬e the di෴stance between me and the second rider.
“What I understood from all these years being here in MotoGP, it doesn’t matter if you win by one second or 🦩three seconds.
“So, today I tried to manage that꧟ gap, try to understand what we need tomorrow for the race.
“In two, three brake points I had some margin but maybe if I used that margin maybe you never know. But to🍷day I ride comfortably, so this is the most important thing.”
Highlighting an area where he needs to f♏ind the most improvement for Sunday’s grand prix, Marquez says the third sector is somewhere he needs “to take a little🦹 bit more risk” in.
“Find the same feeling,” Marquez replied w𝓰hen asked what he needs for Sunday.
“𒉰I want to find theಌ same feeling. It’s true I need to improve a bit that sector three.
“It’s mayꩲbe where ඣI can find… I know where I lose the tenth, but I need to take a little bit more risk.
“I did some laps in the practice about the T3. About the rest, fine. The same🦹 feeling will be… maybe tomorrow someone will go out and be faster, like we saw tod🏅ay with [Ai] Ogura.
“You neve🍌r know in MotoGP. But if it’s like this we wi🧸ll understand and it’s important to finish the race.”
Quotes provided by Crash MotoGP Editor Peter McLaren
