Luca Marini: “For sure, Jorge and Pecco knew this…”

“If you stay behind a📖nother bike, it's a disaster”

Bagnaia, Martin, 2024 Malaysian MotoGP
Bagnaia, Martin, 2024 Malaysian MotoGP

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Luca Marini underlined why title rivals Francesco Bagnaia and Jorge Martin fought so intensely during the opening laps of Sunday’s Malaysian MotoGP.

The Repsol Honda rider explained that spending a lap in the hot and dirty air of another bike not only causes front tyre pressure to rise but slows engine performance and roasts the followi🐟ng rider.

Bagnaia and Martin swapped the lead a thrilling 11 times in just three laps before Bagnaia esta💞blished superiority. The pair then maintained first and second, separated by around two-🎐seconds, until the chequered flag.

It was th💧e latest ex🍌ample of a ‘back-to-front’ MotoGP victory battle, where all the overtaking action occurs at the start, rather than building up to a blockbuster conclusion.

“If you stay a full lap behind💃 another bike, everything is a disaster. So for sure, Jo﷽rge and Pecco knew this and they wanted to be in front,” said Marini.

“If you stay behin🧜d another bike, it's a disaster. The temperature of everything ꦜrises a lot, you feel the heat in your body, the front tyre, and the engine.

“So everything starts to be slower, the engin𓆏e goes less [powerful], the front tyre stops less, the rear t🧸yre temperature rises.”

Marini, a good friend of fellow VR46 Academy rider Bagnaia, added: 𝔉“I didn't see the images yet, but I hope they fought in a good way, a clever way.

“It's nice at the end to see the two guys f🍌ighting in the championship also fight in the races.”

Luca Marini, 2024 Malaysian MotoGP
Luca Marini, 2024 Malaysian MotoGP

“I got some burns on the legs”

Marini meanwhile had a somew🗹hat painful ride to 15th.

“We have to try to improve the w🍎ay that the heat goes out from the bike, because I got some buℱrns on the legs," he said.

“We need to improve this by the first race next year in Thailand, because if i🐽t wi🔯ll be hot like this, it will be difficult.

“But I'm quite satisfied about the physical side. I think it was a good race. It was just a slow race. This track was super slippery with this temperature and with our bike ♍we struggle even more.

“At the beginning, it l🦂ooks like everybody was pushing a lot, and I was missing some torque, some engine performance with this hot temperature."

The restart exacerbated Honda's heat woes.

“With the quick start procedure, it's a little bജit strange, how you go on track, then you wait on the grid, the temp🧸erature goes up and everything, so for me this was not a good point for us," Marini said.

“Then we had𒈔 some [chatter] vibration like always, I think that here many riders struggle with the vibration in Turn 5 and Turn 12, but for us it's very difficult to ride th🔴e bike in those corners.

“We lose like two-tenths in each corner every lap, because we cannot lean, so I think🔯 this is one of our biggest problems at the moment. And then there's always the grip.

“But during theꦓ race, also our tyre management is not so bad. It's just that we start from so far behind, and it's impossible to overtake, because of the wings, because of the temperature, and the rear grip and everything.”

Team-mate Joan Mir failed to finish due to🐼 a rear brake problem causing a fall.

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