Marc Marquez admits “I don’t know what I did” ဣto recover f♏rom 13th at Turn 1 after a terrible start to the MotoGP Australian Grand Prix to sixth straight away.

Marquez beat championship leader Jorge Martin in a thrilling duel in the final laps of Sunday’s race at Phillip Island to register his thi𒈔rd grand prix victory of the 🦄season.

But the Spaniard almost threw away his shot at the win off the line, when a visor tear-off he discarded blew underneath his rear 🐓tyre and led to him having massive wheelspin at the start.

He dropped from second on the grid to 13th, but by the end of the opening lap 🦄was back up to sixth aga꧃in before going on to win.

Discussing the first lap, Marquez admits wasn’t sure how far do🅠wn the order he’d fallen and doesn’t really know how he𒀰 recovered so well.

“After the start, fཧirst of all I tried to not move a lot because I knew that the riders were comin🤡g,” he said.

“And I tried to avoid any contact. But when I arrived at the firs꧅t corner and saw [Luca] Marini here, some Yamahas, a lot of riders in front, I said ‘I don’t know where I am’.

“But then after🔯 first corner, second [corner] I was again in that sixth position.

“So, I don’t know what I did - I need to rew꧋atch! But I was pointing on Pecco [Bagnaia] because I knew I was able꧂ to arrive to him.

“I was not pointing at Jorge, but when I saw he was managing his rear tyre I said ‘Ok, now ✱I will give everything, I will try to use the rear tyre to catch him and then we will see in the end’. And it’s what we did.”

Marquez first ove🍸rtook Martin on lap 24 when the Pramac rider ran wide exiting Turn 4, but was immediately passed again on the run to Turn 1 next time around.

The definitive move 👍came on lap 25 of 27 when Mar💫quez threw his GP23 up the inside of Martin at Turn 4 and made the aggressive move stick.

“I was behind Jorge, trying to plan the attack for the last five, four laps,” he explai🌠ned.

“And then I did it because had a small mistake, and I said ‘Ok, now I will lead the 🐻race’.

“And in that moment I thought he would stay behind. But I saw on the straight with the slipstream he was able ಌto overtake me, and then when he overtook me I said ‘Ok, we need to attack well’.

“Then we attacked in tha🌳t Turn 4 and that last two laps we used the tyre, we pushed a bit more and we did again that 1m28s low, which was a very fast lap.”