Marc Marquez explains first crash on factory Ducati in Americas GP practice
By far the fastest rider on Friday, Marc Marquez had a little hiccup wheཧn he hit the deck in FP1.
Marc Marquez admitted▨ that there was no need for him to push so early in wet conditions after reco🐓rding his first crash as a factory Ducati MotoGP rider in Friday practice for the Americas Grand Prix.
Just 15 minutes into the start of the day’s running at a rain-soaked Circuit of the Americas, Marquez suffe♚red a major highside at Turn 2 and landed on the tarmac.
The Spaniard was uninjured in the incident and was able to rejoin the session on his second bike, eventually finishing third-quickest behind 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Franco Morbidelli and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Miller.
However, it was notable as being Marquez's first crash with the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:factory Ducati team in an official session, although he did have a low-spee🐟d fall during testing at Sepang last mo🎀nth.
Speaking afterw🦹ards, the six-time MotoGP champion took full responsibility for the incident, explaining that he didn’t have a full understanding of the track conditions when he went down at Turn 2.
[It was] my mistake because it was not the time to have this kind of mistakꦍes in FP1,” the 32-year-old told MotoGP.com.
“But with that extra motivation, with extra confidence, I didn't understand or I didn't check there was🏅 that amount of water on the racetrack and I had aquaplaning at Turn 2.
highsides at T2 after setting a new fastest lap! 🇺🇸 — MotoGP™🏁 (@MotoGP)Marquez enjoyed a much better outing during the main practice session on Friday afternoon, as he revelled in mixed conditions to 𒁃top the charts by seven tent🎉hs of a second.
Even then, he insisted thaꦯt he didn’t give it all on his final flying lap, knowing that taking too much risk on a drying track could🌳 risk another crash.
“These were my conditions. I feel comfortable, I feel natural with those wet patches,” he said. “Every🧸 lap the race track improved a little bit, every lap I improved.
[On] the las꧋t lap I didn't push because that was not time to make anothe🦹r mistake. I already had a lap time to stay in Q2 [and] that was the target. Tomorrow the target will be the front row.”
With dry weather expected for the remainder of the week, the competitive picture could well change on Saturday as the sun shines aga🌺in over COTA.
Marqu✤ez admitted that teams will have limited opportunities on Saturday morning to hone their set-ups before qualifying and the sprint later in the day.
“๊Tomorrow everything will be more tight and more close because today was very difꦺficult conditions.
“The weekend will start tomorrow. It will be very difficult to understand the tyres and the set-up and all these things in only 30 minutes be𒈔cause we have only 30 minutes [of practice running].
“But let's see if we can understand what we need for the time attack and what we need for the sprint race.”
