The red champion disappointed after retiring due to a fall on the 2nd lap of the GP in Jerez: “I’m fine, but we suffer in the race and we’re missing something”
The Ducati that is celebrating has colors other than red. Also because there was no red under the flag. Marc Marquez crashed on the second lap, Pecco Bagnaia was unlucky, he was stopped by a problem with the front, when however he was 8th, with a few positions recovered and nothing more. Jerez then understands a paradox. He decreed that Desmo is refreshed, there’s no doubt, with a clean sweep in the Sprint and two bikes on the podium yesterday. At the same time, however, it ends with the official team fifth in the team classification, exactly one hundred points behind Aprilia: 91 to 191. One hundred points deficit in four grands prix. And with Marc -44 from Bez. Unreal gaps, too ugly to be true.
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Alex superior Marc who went down a few corners after suffering an unusual overtaking from his brother. “When he passed me I told myself that that wouldn’t be my fight anyway. That’s why I didn’t fight too much. Even if he hadn’t passed me there he would have done so in any of the subsequent corners. Already in the Sprint when he overtook me he then gave me a second and a half in three laps. It’s truly a joy to see him driving here. While my level was third-fourth place.” As if to specify that frustration has nothing to do with it. However, a doubt remains: if his race was supposed to be conservative, how do you explain, for someone who is always lucid like him, such a mistake on the second lap? “I don’t know the reasons for the crash, but when you crash it’s 90% the pilot’s fault.” However, in his case yesterday, not responsibilities linked to his physical condition: “No, no: I feel good”, he assured.
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On the other hand, however, his examination of the current situation leaves its mark. “At the moment we have neither the strength nor the level to fight for the World Championship. Because every Sunday we suffer, because at the end of every week we lose points. And when that’s the case it means you’re missing something.” Among the many exciting aspects of this situation, of a World Cup that is currently very uncertain, is that everyone sees it in their own way. To those who asked him if Ducati had closed the gap with his Aprilia this weekend, for example, Jorge Martin replied: “Gap? Which gap? There has never been a real gap. There are always different conditions and balances”. And that’s the reason why this is more than ever a “Drivers’ World Championship”. But if that’s the case – and it’s fascinating to think that it is – Marc should be ahead of everyone. Last year’s Marc would be one, one imagines: it should be remembered that then, after 4 GPs, despite a zero (Austin) he had more than double the points he has today (123 against 57).
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He himself in a certain sense confirmed the concept when he said: “Here in Jerez, a combination of the 2026 Ducati Desmo and my brother’s skill won. Because in the end, the rider always has the final say.” The mystery then is when and how Alex suddenly became so much stronger than him. And whether the phenomenon is limited to Jerez, which Marc certainly loves more for the fans and the environment than for the track. On a bad Sunday, therefore, in the end, for the reds the good thing is that you stay on the track: in a situation like this, working is better than brooding: “We need to focus above all on Sunday – explained Marc – when the Aprilia really has a great pace. And what’s more, on Sundays I’m either unlucky or, like here, I make mistakes”.
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