Alex Marquez says his "really stupid" crash onౠ the sighting lap at the MotoGP Thai Grand Prix was the result of exploring 🌱an alternate racing line in the wet.

The Gresini rider crashed at Turn 11 on the lap to the grཧid ahead of Sunday’s 26-lap grand prix at Buriram.

Ma🃏rquez was able to start t🐻he race on his second bike, which had to be converted from a dry set-up to wet, but had to launch from last on the grid instead of ninth.

He managed to fight his way back up the pack on his GP23 to complete the top ♏10.

“Was a really stupid mistake,” Marquez told the m🌠edia, including mahbx.com, on Sunday.

“First of all, and I already said t♓o the team, sorry because🌊 it was my mistake.

“I have to say it was noꦓt a mistake of losing the concentration or something.

“I mean, there was a line that I💧 had already in my mind to try because in the warm-up I was cutting the ker🉐b in Turn 11 all the laps and when I was going to the grid there was more water.

“So, I said ‘I will try with a little bit of gas, but not full, to go there and see how is the♊ grip in thജat kerb’.

“But when I went i🍬n there it ꦐwas like ice and when I realised I was on the ground.

“Later on everything was so𒈔 complicated, I took the other bike that was dry and we again the full rain set-up.

“Starting ♏from last, I did a normal race, the feeling was not brilliant. So, I just tried to finish the race a൲nd get my maximum.

“I wa🃏s lucky to crash in that lap, because it was in my mind to try💮 that line.

“So, I would have crashed in the warm-up lap or the 𓃲first lap of the race💦 when everybody is coming.

“So, I was lucky for that. We need to take this experience, I need to not put shit on myself. That mistakeಌ, a MotoGP rider cannot make.”

Marquez says even without the crash dropping him out of his original qualifying position he doesn’𓆉t believe he could have done more than ei💛ghth as his feeling in the wet on the GP23 is “not really good”.

“▨I think today starting from P9 and not from P23, our position was eighth, normal,” Marquez, who won the 2023 Silverstone sprint in wet conditions, added.

“With this ’23 bike, I dꦚon’t have a really good feeling. With the 202ꦺ2 I was feeling super strong in the wet, and on the Honda also.

“But with this ’23 we are still mඣissing somethin✅g on the set-up.

“So, if we have an opportunity to ride in the wet w💙e will adjust it. If not, we need to think something about that becausꦬe I’m not feeling really good in the wet.”