A second place for 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alex Marquez in the MotoGP Sprint is not a no🌱velty by now, but the Spanish rider says he was not entirely expecting such a result ahead of the Saturday race in Spain.

It was Marquez’s fifth second place from five Sprint🦩s this season at Jerez, but after crashing twice on Friday and losing out on track time to understand tyres and try different setu♓ps he had planned, the 29-year-old was not entirely sure where he stood ahead of the 12-lap Saturday race.

“I didn’t start the race 🌜really convinced,” Marquez told MotoGP.com after the Spanish Sprint.

“We know that [Friday afternoo꧃n] we didn’t get a lot of information [because of] the c♏rash, and I was a bit worried about track conditions and all that because I was not having everything under control before starting the race.

“So, I took it easy a little bit, I did a good start but in the first 𝕴three laps I took it easy to not make mistakes; and laꦫter on I was just trying to keep the pace, to not make mistakes, I decided to just control the gap with Pecco [Francesco Bagnaia] and just be calm.

“[I’m] really happy for that, I think we did a good step today, but the other ones with t꧋he information they got yesterday did another one, so it’s what we need to do for tomorrow.

“Happy, but tomorrow is the main day, the important day, and we need to be𒊎 focused again.”

Marquez added that he feels the podi𒐪um is again a possibility for him in the Grand Prix, but stressed the importance💦 of the start.

“I think yes,” Marquez said when asked if he could finish🦩 on the podium on Sunday in Jerez, “but it will de🍒pend a lot on the first lap and the start because here, we saw today, with a train it’s super-difficult to manage the front tyre.”

The 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Gresini Racing rider had been able to follow his brother, MotoGP points leader 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez, in qualifying and again in the Sprint, and was unsurprised by the areas he felt the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Ducati Lenovo Team rider was faster than him.

“Exactly the poi🦂nts that I expected before coming here: turn four, turnꩵ seven, turn eight,” Marquez said when asked where he was losing time to his older brother.

“I mean, no secrets with him [Marc Marquez], he’s real🔥ly fast there, he’s ♓able to be really consistent in those points; he’s able to turn the bike, doesn’t matter if it’s a soft [compound] rear [tyre], medium compound rear, or [whatever], he’s able to be really there.

“Me, in tha൲t point, I feel more the rear pushing to the front and I was not able to turn. So, we need to improve a little bit that point for tomorrow, and we will tr𓃲y it.”