Revealed: Marc Marquez ‘said no’ to last-gasp bike set-up at German MotoGP
Marc Marquez 'just gritted his t🐓༺eeth' rather than use a modified set-up
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez rejected a❀ last-minute bike set-up designed to ease injuries.
The Greജsini Ducati rider preferred a machine that gave him a greater chance of a good result, even if it inflicted pain on the injuries suffered on Friday.
Marquez's crash on Friday caused a broken finger and pain to the r🤡ibs, before a frustrating qualifying session resulted in a P13 start.
But Marquez sailed to a꧋ P2 finish, behind Pecco Bagnaia who profited from Jorge Martin crashing from the lead.
Marquez also had to overcome contact with Franco M𓂃orbidelli which smashed his screen and inflated his airbag.
“Adrenaline took over. He set his fastest first sector of the weekend without a screen, without wind protection,” Marq🍃uez’s crew chief Frankie Carchedi told TNT Sports.
Carchedi paid tr🔯ibute to a unique round for Marquez: “It’s a bit of an understatement. In all my years, I’ve never had a weekend like this.
“You always mak⛄e a plan - how many laps, what bike you will used. We might as well have not bothered! Because nothing went to plan!
“We had a technical [pr🦄oblem]. We had to use ꦺthe other bike.
“Saturday, we prepared everything in case he went out, which we weren’t sure about until the ཧlast second.
“It was pretty much a bonus. There was 💫no plan t﷽hat went right.
“In qualifying, we had a technical with one bike, had to jumpꦏ on another, then traffic…
“Yesterday he struggled in Sector 1, the two right co꧋rners, where he had problems with his ribs.
“This morning, you don’t normally do a bike set-up for an injury. But we tried so൩mething to make it m🍬ore agile to help him.
“It helped his problem. But he said ‘no’.
“Our base for FP1 w🅘as what he started the race with, and just griꩲtted his teeth.
“We just talked ൩abou💝t finishing and getting as many points as we can. It’s so difficult to overtake.
“Fortunately where Marc was strong, anไd we༺ were strong, was the last sector.
“He set his fastest Sec🌟ಌtor 1 of the whole weekend on the last lap.”
Airbag "hurt" - "you can't breathe"
The contact with Pramac’s Morbidelli, w💯hich rocked Marquez and damaged his bike, spurred him on.
“This triggered him into action,” Michael Laver🐻ty analysed on TNT Sports.
“Frankie was wide, comes back on 🌠line. The door was open, Marc tried to stick his GP23 in there.
“Contact, the airba🉐g goes up, the screen iꦺs broken.
“Their legs came together, it was a racing 🐭incident. It sparked something within Marc - game on!
“At the next direction chang♏e, Enea Bastianini gets past him. Even with his airbag up, he fights at the top of the hill, back on Enea.”
Sylvain Guintoli explained the impact of an airbag inflatไing: “It will have hurt his ribs a lot. It does deflate, but it takes tiꦐme.
“When it goes off, it feels re🃏ally uncomfor⛦table. It will have hurt.
“The airbag inflated is on your arms, your sides, your back, everything feels super-tightꦉ and you can’t breathe.
“The contact with Morbidelli fired 🐭him up🙈, he took all the risk and didn’t care.”
Laverty added: “Marc is a masochis♐t, as soon as pain isไ triggered it spurs him into action. He is something exceptional.”
Guintoli said: “There is no quitting. Everything that could have gone wrong, did go wrong - multiple technical ⛦problems, a crash, an injury, the tra🦂ffic on-track, he couldn’t get to Q2, starting from 13th.
“Despite all this, there i💝s no giving up. Only attacking all the time.”
However, it was the first time in nine MotoGP grands✨ prix that Marquez has started at the Sachsenring that he failed to win.
He i🀅s third in the MotoGP standings, 56 points behind new leader Bagnaia.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to 🦩F1.
