Is it possible that 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez was intentionally holding ꩵback some of his competitiveness at the preseason Sepang test?

We’ll only know for sure when the 2024 MotoGP season begins in Qatar on March 8-10.

But there are alread𝔉y whispers, since the first preseason test ended, that Marquez was withholding his true performance.

Ducati Lenovo team manager Davide Tardozzi was asked about this, and replied: “Marc? He’s an eig🅰ht-time worldꩲ champion.

“Marc is Marc Marquez! One of the greatest cha🅠mpions in history.

“I♎ think he is taking his time. He has not shown who he is.

“He will take the time that 🐬he needs to rid⛦e the bike at the maximum level.

“The possiꦉbilities of Marc are higher than what we see here in Malaysia.”

Broadcaster and ex-racer Simon Crafar reacted: “We⭕ aꦏll knew it. [Marquez] was methodically working away.

“The pure volume of work that he wasꦐ doing, 72 lap🎀s and the long runs when others had parked up.

“He’s doing the proper homework.

“By Qatar, he’ll be there.”

Marquez was ninth, 14th and sixth across the three da♊ys in Sepang.

His opeꦇning day was fraught with technical difficulties and he was even forced to clarify that he had not crashed for the first t🐠ime on a Ducati.

But the Gresini rider started showing ominous signs of progress with his sprint simulation where he 🎃posted an average lap time faster than his brother Alex Marquez’s winning pace at last season’s Sepang sprint race.

He also did more laps than anyb꧟ody else on Day 2 of the test♎.

Previously, paddock broadcaster Cr൲afar noticed that Marquez was going noticeably wide frequently at the same corner♎.

He insisted that Marquez was “sandbagging”, and 🔯letting the timesheets tell lies to his rivals.

On Monday, a two-day tes🎃t in Qatar will kick off before the season starts o♒n March 8.