Marc Marquez Friday MotoGP fall: “I would say just give up, but the instinct…”

Marc Marquez overcomes a Friday afternoon f🔯all to finish fourth on𓃲 day one of the British MotoGP, says Alex the rider to beat.

Marc Marquez, 2025 British MotoGP
Marc Marquez, 2025 British MotoGP

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez suffered his fourth crash of the 2025 MotoGP season on his way to fourth on the timesheets during Friday practice for t༒he British Grand Pri🀅x.

The title leader had cast doubt on his pre-event prediction of Silverstone being a difficult circuit f༒or his riding style by lཧeading FP1.

But the afternoon hour, in which Marq꧅uez suffered a front-end fall at Turn 3, was indeed a tougher contest for the factory Ducati star.

“I closed the gas 𓆏later. I braked later. I went in faster, with more banking... Re🍒sult: Limit!” Marc explained. "I just braked too late.”

If the cause o꧟f the fall wasn’t a mystery, Marquez admitted it was per🍌haps not wise to cling to his GP25 for so long as it slid off track.

“It's my instinct. I was thinking more to come back to tꦅhe garage and continue with the same tyres, more than the crash,” he explained.

“I was thinking more to save the bike.

“But it's true✱ that it's tricky because when I passed over the grass I hit a bit the h🎉and.

“Thinking right now, I would say ‘just give up’ [and let the bike go], but my instinct meant I held🤪 the൩ bike!”

Marquez was briefly pushed out of the ൩top ten before easilyဣ claiming direct Qualifying 2 access with fourth place (+0.360s).

Mea🎐nwhile, younger brother Alex exploited his superior corner speed to top the timesheets for Gresini, with the Yamahas of Fabio Quartararo and Jack Miller separating the Marquez brothers.

“Here I’m struggling more than in Qatar,” Marc admitted, having emerged from Lusail with a perfect double viꦚctory despite also flag🐻ging that track as one of his weakest.

“I will work on my riding style. But I'm losing🐽 less than in the past, so for that reason I'm closer to the top guys.

“It's true that it's a bit like last year here🐲, with the used tyre I feel better than the new tyres, while in the first races the time attack was also one of my str♎ong points.”

The ei🏅ght-time world champion, who agreed that Alex is still the rider to beat this weekend, could thus face his toughest battle yet to extend a perfect run of sprint victories to seven.

“There was only one right corne🧸r where Alex was incredibly fast, compared to the other Ducatis, which 𓂃is turn 8,” he revealed. “But we know Alex. Here, Catalunya and Malaysia, all those long right corners, he is super fast and historically this has been one of his best tracks.

“From FP1 to Practice, I already reduced a bit [the T꧋urn 8 gap]ꦏ, but he gained in others. So in the end, we have some up and downs. I’m gaining a lot in some corners. He's gaining a lot in other corners.

“Of course, he will work on his🧸 weak points, I will work on mine. But it's like the tendency, as always: Long right corners he is faster, left corners I’m faster. 

"Let's see what we can do for tomorrow.”

Marquez lost some 🍃valuable practice start time when he suffered a technical issue at the end of the morning session.

“A sensor detected some error, an𒐪d I received a message to stop the engine,” he🐼 said.

“Of c🍒ourse, the practice start be🐬comes more and more important, especially because with the front device, rear device it's difficult to disengage at the [fast] first corner here.

“It’s no꧑t like Le Mans, but it’s difficult. But it's like this, so I cannot think abღout it.”

Instead, he’ll call upon the same sort of instinct that put 🌱his hand at risk in the afternoon fall.

ไ“I will try to follow my instinct🔯 tomorrow at the start.”

Marc will start this Saturday’s Sprint with a 22-point le𒊎ad over Alex.

Factory te♍am-mate Francesco Bagnaia was se✃venth on day one at Silverstone.

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