#defeat #won #plan
Marc Márquez He was very happy with his second place in Jerez in MotoGP. He tried to win, but Pecco Bagnaia resisted. He admitted that he chose to lift the bike to avoid a double fall. He is already talking about competing for the World Cup, although with a small mouth.
Perfect race.
“That lap of honor was special in front of the fans. It wasn’t the perfect race because I’m human and in the first five laps yesterday’s mistake weighed on me. I was tense, I lost four positions and I didn’t have the chance to leading all the time and making my pace constant. Happy with how everything went in general and how I fought with the Ducati leader until the last lap.”
Ducati GP24 contra GP23.
“It hasn’t had an influence, those first five laps were missing, if I hadn’t crashed yesterday or I hadn’t come from two consecutive races with a crash in the race, maybe the film would have changed. I’m human, I admit that I was tense, I had seen many falls in Moto2. .. the important thing is that when I passed Bezzecchi I had the pace to catch Pecco and almost pass him. This time I saw him in time, he was coming strong on the inside, we had strong contact, but I decided to abort and lift the bike. , the Valencia flash came to me (2023 with Jorge Martín). Yes, I would be here saying that it is not my fault, but I would have lost another 20 points. I have raised the fast bike, I have the wheel marked, yes, one day. They mark it for you and someone else will mark it for you”.
The fans.
“Of ten, the image of six thirty in the morning in Nieto-Peluqui turning on the flashes of the cell phones… The lap of honor, we have torn up a fence with the fans, it has seemed very short and I hope more arrive moments like that. This is where my bad dream started and I hope that we can get out of that negative spiral from here. We haven’t gotten out of it yet, it’s still heavy, but mentally there is more and more confidence and that confidence allows you to try things like those in the last few laps.”
Enjoy.
“I already said it in Austin, I enjoyed it a lot despite the problem. And here I have enjoyed the whole weekend, if you are happy and things work out for you, much better. I am aware that there will be circuits coming that are going to cost us a lot more, but “We will have to suffer and push in the circuits that we are best at.”
Sweet defeat.
“I don’t consider it a defeat, today I have only won. I have won in my plan, in the route that I have in my head and it is getting better and better. I said it yesterday without knowing what was going to happen today. I did two races, yes in “I fell in Portimao, but it wasn’t my fault. In Austin and here we have gone up a little bit and now we have to maintain it with the necessary confidence.”
The world Cup.
“It surprises me, because I have had a terrible start to the championship and we are only 32 points away. It means that we are running at the limit and that there will be many more zeros. The ones I have had are annoying, because they have not been ones to go over the laps. We will try to stay calm, know how to suffer when it comes and take advantage of the moments. But it is a pride to be battling face to face with the leaders of Ducati.”
What’s the plan.
“It’s in my head, and when you come from four very hard years in your sports career… In sports, sometimes mental injuries weigh more than physical ones. I had a very serious one of those, but it causes a mental injury of the one that you have to go out. It doesn’t mean that you are defeated, it means gaining good inertia, confidence, my bet this year was risky, but I put the courage that an athlete sometimes has to do, face openly whatever comes, and it’s going well for me.”
Tomorrow at the test.
“I don’t know, like the private tests, laps, trying things, we will try to understand better what the official Ducati do, and I have two or three things there that let’s see if they help me improve my riding.”
