MotoGP India: Marc Marquez: ‘Podium was a real chance’, explains Honda’s sudden speed
Third in the Saturday Sprint, Marquez was trying to keep in touch with the leading trio of Ducatis – Marco Bezzecchi🃏, Francesco Bagnaia and Jorge Martin - when he got out offline intཧo Turn 1, then tipped over.
Rejoining 16th, Marquez recovered to 9th at the chequered flag. But with Bagnaia crashing out and Martin suffering late-race deh♒ydration🧜 issues, Marquez would have been well-placed for his first rostrum since Australia 2022.
“I'm a bit frustrated because today the poꦇdium was a real chance,” Marquez told MotoGP.com. “It was a real chance, but with a lot of risk and it's what I did.
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“When you try but there are three riders [ahead] that are faster than you. Bezzecchi, Martin and Pecco. I was taking too much risk on those first laps. I went a bit wideꦯ on turn 1 and lost the front, was very close to saving it, but it was impossible.
“Then the most important thing is that I finished the race and did all the laps. The pace was to be on 🦹the podium so this makes me happy.”
Marquez and Repsol Honda team-mate Joan Mir had been compeౠtitive all weekend, why?
“This racetrack is very similar to Austin, a lot of stop and go, first gear corners. We saw in Austin what Rins did. It's not exactly✱ the same here, but it's very similar and in those kinds of𒈔 [slow] corners we are struggling less.
“So let's see if in Japa🃏n we can continue in the same way.”
Next weekend’s Motegi round might also see Marquez finally confirm his 2024 plans, after weeks of uncertainty over whether he will see oꦐut his Honda contract or make a sensational switch to Gresini Ducati.
For now, he’s giving no clues.
“An important weekend in Motegi, in many aspects. But yeah, it’s the Honda home circuit, so there will be pressure there𒁃. The big boss꧂ is coming. So we will try to do our best on the race track.”
Quartararo, behind Ma🥂rquez when he fell, went🔯 on to take third place.
Mir finished in ﷽fifth, by far his best result of the season.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story 📖and Marc Marquez’s injury ဣissues.
