A surprise fourth in ꦚthe Sprint, the Repsol Honda rider soon became embroiled in some ‘intense’ ea🌟rly battles, including banging fairings with Aleix Espargaro, the rider he passed on the last corner of the Sprint.

Marquez had dropped to eighth by the middle stages of the gra⭕nd prix before reigniting his 2019 victory duel with Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo for sixth.

This time, the Frenchman preva🍨iled by less than a second, but both were then moved up a place when Espargaro was demoted from fifth for ⛎a (second) breach of the tyre pressure regulations.

Meanwhile, five seconds ahead, Ducati w♛on for the 14th time in 17 MotoGP races courtesy oಌf Jorge Martin.

Ducati’s technical guru Gigi Dall’Igna recently confirmed 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:he turned down an ap♒proach from Honda. But if he had accepted, might Marquez h▨ave reconsidered his exit from Repsol Honda to join to Gresini Ducati next season?

“I don’t know if it was possible or not,” Marquez replied. “The [Gr𒀰esini] decision is made. So I won’t speak about ‘if, if, if’.

“Now, as you see, I am more free. I am🥂 just riding the bike, I don’t care about anything. I am just looking to keep the intensity of these last races so when I go to the new project, I will have the pace.

“Enough [pace]? I don’t know. But at lea♉st I will be ready.”

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Quizzed on the obvious intensity he had shown on 💦Sunday, Marquez aꦰdded:

“Yeah today I went out and I🎐 was, as we say in Spanish, ‘warm’ ['up for it']. I tried to attack in the beginning. I realised immediately, if I am not attacking, every time I go into Turn 1-3, one bike would overtake me.

“So th🎉en I said ‘The best way to defend is to attack’. And I started to𒈔 attack. The way to attack with our bike is in the braking points. I was braking late at Turn 5, Turn 11 and 12. But it was not enough.

“[In the battle with Aleix] we lost one-and-a൩-half seconds in one lap! Then he had more pace. Especially🌳 with the hard rear tyre. Yesterday I beat him, today he beat me!

“As every w🧸eekend with the hard rear tyre, it’s more constant but we are struggling🐠 with performance. We are dropping performance. The difference in time, the way to ride is different.

“Then in the end when Fabio overtook me, I was able to catch him, but I was overriding too much. It was important to finish the🎶 race so I stayed calm.”

The ’93 revealed he had come close to joining brother Alex in gambling on the 🎶medium rear tyre.

“Yesterd๊ay with the sprint race,🌼 we saw the tyre consumption was super high," he said. "Today, it’s true that I was thinking a lot, about choosing the aggressive option, the softer [medium] rear tyre.

“And maybe it was okay, I don’t know. But then I chꩵose the same as everybody andꦛ tried to control it myself all the race. I was looking for a stable weekend and we achieved it."

The next best Honda r▨ider was Joan Mir in twelfth.