Marc Marquez reveals “only mistake” of his wet French MotoGP ride

Marc Marquez was secꦡond in flag-to-flag🔯 Le Mans race

Marc Marquez, Ducati Corse, 2025 French MotoGP
Marc Marquez, Ducati Corse, 2025 French MotoGP
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Marc Marquez say🐽s “the only small mistake” he made during the chaotic flag-to-flag MotoGP French Grand Prix was when he served his double long lap penalty.

The 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:factory Ducati rider came through to finish second in 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:a rain-aff✱𒁃ected grand prix at Le Mans on Sunday to extend his championship lead to 22 points, after crashes for rivals 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Pecco Bagnaia and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Marquez.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez, along with a number of others, came in to swap to dry bikes at the end of the warm-up lap after the original start was ab🎀orted when everyone came in initially for wet rubber.

Under new rules following the COTA chaos triggered by Marc Marquez, those who came in on the warm-up lap earned double long lap penalties 🌳to serve in the Fre🥀nch GP.

Marquez did so, but admits he made an error when he tried to serve h꧑is first one as he almost ran into the back ofജ Fermin Aldeguer and was forced to miss the loop.

“That double long lap was the only small mistake I did,” he told MotoGP’s After the Flag, “becauseꦆ I was trying to follow Alex in that moment to make the long lap in the same way, because like this I had somebody in front because normally the guy who is leading, if he arrives to some corners that are wet, he is the one doing the mistake.

“But I nearly hit Fermin ⛄and I was not cꦇlear if I was doing the long lap.

“So, then I j🍬ust stayed in and it was the only small mista꧋ke. But all the rest was everything how I planned. And scoring 20 points plus yesterday, I can say that it was a good weekend.”

Marquez, who won the sprint on Saturday, noted after it that his crash out of the Spanish GP helped hꦍim to avoid a similar a mis⛦take in the half-distance race at Le Mans.

He reiterated this after S🌳unday’s chaot♊ic grand prix.

“Y🌳eah, I mean I said to some TV, maybe today without that mistake in Jerez it was maybe another mistake her🌳e,” he added.

“I was controlling myself💧 all the time, trying to score the maximum points as possib꧟le.

“I didn’t exaggerate, but especially I tried to be fully focused all the race be✨cause the first five, six laps were crazy.

“And it was super demanding 🅺on 🦋the mental side to understand what you need to do.

“But also when it was raini🎶ng  during all the race, the track was changing super qu💝ick: less water, more water, less water, and the grip was changing a lot.

“It was d🍬ifficuဣlt to adapt the riding style to the conditions.”

Johann Zarco “faster than us”, says Marc Marquez

When those who had switched to dry bikes went back to wets, and all long lap penalties wer🍃e served, Johann Zarco - who started on wets - took the𓂃 lead on the eighth tour.

Marc Marquez was around eight seconds adrift at this stage, but saw he was not able to take much time🦹 out of the eventual race winner and elected against pushing to chase him down.

Zarco ended the grand pri💙x almost 20 secoꦬnds up the road.

“Today he was faster than us,” he noted.

“I got out and I say ‘ok, let’s see if he burns the🐭 tyres’ because normally when you do three, four laps on dry conditions on wets sometimes you destroy the tyres and you cannot ride fast on the wet.

“But I pushed two laps and I saw that I was just half a second or three tenths, or eveꦆn zero, faster than him.

“I said eight seconds [gap] was too mu💮ch, so I just tried to control the distance between me and Alex.”

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