Marc Marquez nearly repeats iconic save but admits at Australian MotoGP: “I don’t have a lot of confidence”
Four years ago at the⛎ Australian MotoGP, Marquez resꦓcued his Honda from more than a 70 degree angle.
This time around, at the same part of the track, he fell to underline a miserable Friday practice which hღe ended 16th-fastest.
“I had two moments today in Turn 1🎃0. The second one? I stopped the bike,” Marquღez reacted.
“I w🍎as very close to a s🎀ave like 2019. But we couldn’t.
“It was a good day, not bad.
“It was what I expected. The moment in Turn 10 didn’t help. We were♏ riding not well.”
Weather conce𒀰rns means the full-length grand prix will now on Saturday, and the﷽ sprint on Sunday.
“Y📖es, we always agree and follow what Race Direction and the championship want to do,” Mar💝quez said.
The eight-time world champion will swap Honda for Gresini Ducati 𝔉in 2024.
His final rounds with Honda, after an 11-year relatꦑionship, are threatening to peter out quietly.
"I didn’t have confid🌳ence and that early crash in FP1 didn’t help," he was quoted by .
"B🍌asically, I don’t have a lot of confidence, and there are faster corners.
“🧸So on the fastest corners I am not pushing, I’m just cruising.
“I’m just pushing in the slow corners and it’s there where I aꦅm crashing, but that’s very safe.
"It’s just the fast corners, I don’t🌳 feel [good] at the♌ moment."
Alex Rins was 12th on Friday, the fastest Honda, a sp🍬ot usu𒁏ally reserved for Marquez.
"He is riding i⛎n a very difꦗferent way,” Marquez said about Rins.
“But in a good way with this Honda. But the level is qಞuite close.
"I will compare just to understand, but the lap time is just one tenth [faster]. I followed someone, he followed someone else, so it’s not the way to do the lap time. On the race pace, w🎶e are similar."
