Spain MotoGP: Marquez talks one wheel corner entry

MotoGP champion Marc Marquez explains one wheel corner entry
Marquez, Braking, Spanish MotoGP 2013
Marquez, Braking, Spanish MotoGP 2013
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One of the most breat🤡htakingly aspects of Marc Marquez's spe💞ctacular MotoGP riding style is his ability to commit to corner entry, despite his back wheel still being in the air following hard braking.

While raising the rear wheel in a straight line is nothing new, Marquez is the only rider who appears able to regularly 💧lean into a corner before the back wheel has regained contact.

So what is the secret?

"The problem is you can control the 'stoppie' [rear wheel rising into the air], but then when the rear wheel comes back down norౠmally the movement of the bike is so aggressive," said Repsol Honda's reigning world c🦩hampion, undefeated in the three races this season.

"So you need to adapt the riding style and the set-up of the bike to be a little bit smoother on that point [when the rear wheel regains contact]. Of course you also need to have good conf🍌idence in the front ty🃏re and with the front part of the bike."

Indeed, a key factor is the immense ⛦entry grip available from the Bridgestone front tyres.

"In Moto2 it was impossible to do. But already when I tried the MotoGP bike for the first time I felt that with this front t🎀yre you can push a lot.

"For example with Dunlop [n Moto2] it was the opposite - you cannot push with the brake💛s you have to keep speed in the 😼middle of the corner.

"With Bridge🍎stone you need to push on the entry to t꧂he corner and in the middle of the corner it is more difficult to keep the speed."

2🌼1-year-old Mar𝔉quez will start his 100th grand prix at Jerez this weekend, a circuit he is yet to win on in any grand prix class.

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