Marco Bezzecchi ཧtook a seventh-place finish in the Thai MotoGP S൩print despite starting from the second row.

Tꦬhe issue for Bezzecchi was the front tyre. He’d been weighing up front tyre choices all weekend, and the choice, for him, between the soft-compound front tyre and the hard-compound front tyre was betꦜween general confidence and performance when riding in a group.

“It was a tough race, but I expected this because I tried this weekend to work with the hard front [tyre] but I was not able to🦹 use it,” Bezzecchi e🍸xplained.

“🐻I lose too much speed and too much confidence when I put the hard front.

“But, 🌊with the soft, when you have hot air in front or other bikes in front then it starts to be difficult. My start was good, but not the best, so I lost a couple of places at the beginning.

“Then I made two critical mistakes in corner three, I went wid꧅e tw🐻o times — the second one more, on the blue paint.

“So, I lost positions, then in the end when t🅷he group was broken I was able to overtake again Brad Binder and [Fabཧio] Di Giannantonio.

“Then, I felt again a bit better.”

As a result of how his Sprint went, Bezze𒆙cchi plans to work on making the hard-compound front tyre work for him in Sunday morning’s Warm U꧂p session.

“I hope that tomorrow morning we find somethingꦦ in the Warm Up to be able to use the hard front, because in braking they [the other riders with the hard-compound front tyre] have a bit more,” Bezzecchi said.

“Let’s say that, when you are alone, it’s similar, 𝄹but when you are behind and the soft starts to receive more hot air, then the front locking starts to be more, like in Mandalika.

“So, hopefully, I can find something to use the hard front. Also, it’s a different approach for thဣe long race, so we will see.”