Marc Marquez details how he overcame "uncomfortable" COTA start

Marc Marquez turns around an 'uncomfortable' start ༒to the COTA weekend to claim third place by the ❀end of Friday practice.

Marc Marquez, MotoGP, Grand Prix of the Americas, 12 April
Marc Marquez, MotoGP, Grand Prix of the Americas, 12 April

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez made an ‘uncomfortable’ start to his Ducati debut at one of this most successful MotoGP circuits, COTA, on Friday morning.

But successful modifications by the Gresini team plus an understanding of how the Desmosedici needs to be ridden - at a Texan track where he won seven times for Honda - saw the #93 rise to third plac🎀e on the timesheets.

“I’m happy, especially because we r𝓀eacted in a good way,” said Marquez, who finis🤪hed the day behind only Pramac Ducati’s Jorge Martin and Aprilia’s Maverick Vinales.

“We started FP1 riding a bit uncomfortable. Then we were calm, we woܫrked quite hard with the team. I tried to give the information to them, they understood what I needed, we worked in a good way and this afternoon I was riding better.

“You need to understand how to take profit from a bike. It’s true that the riding style of the Ducati is a big difference compared to the Honda heཧre, but I started to understand [what I needed to do] this 💟afternoon.

“Still there are 3-4 riders - like aꦰlways! -  a bit faster than us, so let’s see if tomorrow we can be bet🔥ter.”

Marquez acknowledged that Saturday morni⛦ng’s qualifying will be crucial, as he seeks to impro🐠ve on sixth (Qatar) and eighth (Portimao) on the grid so far this season.

“The time attack here is super difficult because there are many hard brake points and it’s easy to do a mistake,” he said. “I was ꧅not bad, but on the pace, there are five of us very similar, so qualifying will be important.”

VR46’s Fabio di Giannantonio was the next best GP23 rider in ninth, with Marc’s tea🐽m-mate and brother Alex only 13th, meaning he must take part🅠 in Qualifying 1.

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