“Bitter taste” for Marc Marquez: “A shame, it was a fraction of a second”

Marc Marqu𒁏ez eyes redemption in Qatar after COTA mistake𒀰 ended five-race win streak.

Marc Marquez, 2025 Americas MotoGP at COTA
Marc Marquez, 2025 Americas MotoGP at COTA

Left with a bitter taste after Texas, where his perfect run of five straight wins ended in a crash from the lead, 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez is ready "to ge👍t back to woꦡrk" in Qatar this weekend.

The COTA tumble, when Marquez cut too much kerb while holding a safe advantage over team-mate Francesco Bagnaia, also cost him the world champi𒊎onship lead by one point to younger brother Alex Ma😼rquez.

“Closing a weekend that has been practically per꧂fect until that point with a crash is something that leaves a bitter taste,” Marc said ahe🐻ad of this weekend.

“It’s a shame, it was a fraction of a second and we need to get back to work and continue to stay focuღsed."

On paper, Qatar is not an ideal venue for Marquez to regain dominance, having only a single previous MotoGP win to his name.

That came back in 2014, at the start of Marquez’s second pre✱mier-class season.

To put th🦩at into perspective, Valentino Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo and Andrea Dovizioso - all long retired 🌳- have won more recently in Qatar than Marc Marquez.

But whil🔯e Marquez’s Honda was losing competitiveness, he’ll return on the factory version of a bike - the Ducati Desmosedici - that has won the past five Lusail races in a row (including Sprints).

“We have great potential, Ducati has always been competitive on this track and we can do well,” said Marquez, who finished fourth (GP) and fifth (Spriꦅnt) on his Ducati debut for Gresini in the 2024 season opener.

Bagnaia, who won last year’s Qatar MotoGP, is eleven points behin♔d Marc Marquez heading into this weekend.

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