Brno MotoGP Test: Marquez works on wheelies for Austria

MotoGP champion and 2017 Czech Republic Grand Prix winner Marc Marquez spent Monday's Brno test trying to adapt his Honda for the hard acc🍌eleration areas at this weekend's Austrian round.

Despite leading the world championship b𒆙y 14-points, unruly accelerationꦗ continues to be the weak point of the RC213V package.

"The track was in a really good condition, so the lap time c🤪ame quite easy," said Marquez, who was qu꧂ickest when he finished testing, but later outpaced by Valentino Rossi.

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MotoGP champion and 2017 Cze🏅ch Republic Grand Prix winner Marc Marquez spent Monday's Brno test trying to adapt his Honda for the hard acceleration areas at this weekend's Austrian round.

Despite leading the♍ world championship by 14-points, unruly acceleration continues to be the weak point of the RC213V package.

"The track was in a rꦆeally good condition, so🀅 the lap time came quite easy," said Marquez, who was quickest when he finished testing, but later outpaced by Valentino Rossi.

"We tried a few t👍hings and it was the perfect way to try to understand a few set-ups, thinking about the Austria GP. There, the important thing is try to avoid the whee🔯lie but at the same time try to have a good braking stability.

"Stil🌳l one of our problems is the acceleratio🐈n side because of the wheelie and we work in electronics but especially the set-up. We try to avoid [the wheelies], but when we improve we lose in other points."

With Yamaha debuting a new downforce fa🐠iring at the test, and Ducati the race weekend, Marquez suggested a fairing update from Honda to help reduce wheelies is not💙 far away.

"Of courꦫse we are thinking about the rest of the season and we are thinking to have more and more new items like we saw the other manufacturers today, who are working on a different type of fairing to try to improve the acceleration. But then you lose top speed, so you need to find a compromise. We tried to change a little bit the bike balance to have less wheelie, but also I need to adapt my riding style to that kind of set-up."

Honda and Yamaha have now joined Ducati 𒉰in using the carbon fibre Ohlins forks.

"I already use them during the weekend," Marquez confirmed. "I tested them on the summer break and basically not a very, very big difference. Because for example on Friday of the race weekend I used the standard one, then then I came back to the other one. Not a big difference, looꦕks like a little bit lighter but also means that this sometimes is shaking little bit easier. But about the rest positive and happy."

Marquez did not re-try the ♏new chassis from the private test in the summer break.

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