Marc Marquez hails “perfect Saturday”, warns “still has some margin” for Thai MotoGP

Factory Ducati riღder made winning start to new season on Saturday

Marc Marquez, Ducati Corse, 2025 Thai MotoGP
Marc Marquez, Ducati Corse, 2025 Thai MotoGP
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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

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