Ducati’s Spanish: “I went down because I cut the curb too much”. And on the starting choice: “I thought that at least ten drivers would follow me”
So accustomed to ending up on the top step of the podium, five times on the first five seasonal occasions between the first three sprints and the first two GPs, which at the sixth time, when he just couldn’t do it, returned to the pits before and retired. Marc Marquez leaves Austin’s cover in Pecco Bagnaia and the first place in the pilot standings, for a point, to his brother Alex. But even without the happy ending of Sunday, he remains, for better or for worse, the catalyst of the Texan weekend of the MotoGP, from the chaos on the starting grid before the street to the epilogue, the retreat on the 14th lap.
I also withdraw for reasons of safety, after in the fall of the 9th lap, slipped on the curb to the serpentone when she was comfortably in the head, she also lost the platform on which to rest the foot, without which it became impossible to be on the track in a competitive way, or in any case quite competitive to try the comeback from the 19th position in which she had slipped. “Life is like this, yesterday after the sprint I was not super Marc and today it was a disaster but I am happy, the competitive level was the right one, I was strong -said the Spanish of the Ducati official at the Sky microphone, knowing that I could complain only with himself -and I know why I fell: I cut the curd too much. The positive side is that even after this fall I am at -1 from the leader.”
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They are not those who are interested in him, but Marc Marquez had taken all the spotlight already on the starting grid, with that sudden escape to the pits three minutes from the start to change the bike, a move in which they then followed him all. Nothing improvised, all prepared, makes the Spaniard understand: “I had clear ideas, I knew what the options were. When they were missing seven minutes I asked Rigamonti (the track engineer, editor’s note) If the other bike was ready, deciding that when they would miss two minutes I would go away, because we had made a mistake to put the tires rainwhile 3-4 already had the slick. I thought that at least ten drivers would follow me to have the delayed departure and it was like this, if it hadn’t happened I would have started from the last place but we would still have been lost less time than having to do the change of motorcycles later. “
And on that choice of rain He explains: “I didn’t want to risk, I knew they would have chosen them all, and to risk it could end as in Moto2, and when Quartararo fell I convinced myself that it was better to go on the safe side. Then I played the joker to bring out the second strategy and in fact everything had gone well”. Until the fall: “I apologize to the team, today I made a mistake”.
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