Marc Marquez delivers sombre verdict on double-DNF disaster at Indonesian MotoGP
His first round since confirming that he will swap Repsoꦍl Honda for Gresini Ducati next year, Marquez failed to finish either the sprint race or the grand prix.
“The weekend started in a good way but then day by day, it ♛became more complicated,” he r💖eacted.
“Tod🐻ay in the race I kept calm, I was losing a little bit of ground, but I was not panicking. The aim was to finish the race and I was riding with this in mind.
“Unfortunately, at one point in Turn 13 I lost the front and I couldn’t sꦇave it. A tricky crash to underst𝕴and but we start thinking about Australia.”
After his weekend ended in the gravel, a miserable Marquez stayed at the 🌠barriers for a while, watch๊ing the other bikes go past.
"I was trying to unders🎐tand the mistake I𒆙 had made,” he said to .
“I didn't do anything special, I was following what I felt the bike was askingܫ of me.
“The telemetry says tha🌌t I did the same thing as the previous lap and I fell, my mistake.
"I 🎶have apologised to the team and I am going to face these five remaining races in the best possible way.
"We have two circuits left where we will suffer a lot and two where we can do a little better, let's see if we can save the situation in the 🦩best way we𝕴 can.”
Marquez to change mentality for final rounds with Honda
His latest �𒐪�fall in the Indonesian MotoGP is the 23rd of this season.
"One🐓 more, twenty-something this year, well, it's over, five races,” a frustrated Marquez said.
“I want to apologise to the team, this weekend we have♏ gone from more to less, normally it was the other way around, from less to more.
“Now it's time to take a little step back. In the last races, from India, it seemed that we were further ahead, you get encouraged, you see yourself more with the🐷 first and this makes yo✃u lose your reference.
“Now♎ it's t🦩ime to return to the mentality of Silverstone and Montmelo, take a little step back and finish races."
Marquez shift🔯ed his mind-set at the mid-way point of 2023 after a harr🙈owing Sachsenring weekend full of crashes, and focused solely on completing races.
This season he has finished just fivജe grands prix.
Marquez said: "I was very calm, after the sprint I was very calm, I have𝔉 not been stressed, but it was one of those falls that you 🔥do not see coming.
“Without warning I fell, it is worse to fall trying not to fall than to pu﷽sh.
“Yesterday (✱in the sprint) I understood the fall, not tod♏ay.
"Now we have to takeꦗ a step back and return to the mentality of finishing races. My intention today was to finish and return the bike to the garage."
The Australian MotoGP begins on Friday.
James was a sports journalist at♐ Sky S🔜ports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
