World championship favorite Marc Marquez is unable to clarify the crash that handed the factors lead again to his brother Alex on the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday.
The manufacturing unit Ducati rider fell out of third place on lap three of the race. It’s the second time in an in any other case good race season that Marquez has fallen and misplaced the lead of the championship: the opposite event was two weekends in the past within the Americas Grand Prix.
“I perceive why I crashed in Austin,” mentioned Marquez after the race at Jerez. “Right this moment, I don’t perceive.
“I must analyse that as a result of I used to be not attacking. I used to be cruising similar to I did within the first races, [staying] behind [the early leaders]. As a result of I do know that the second a part of the race is my robust level.”
Pushed for a speculation, Marquez ventured that being behind different riders – on this case chief Fabio Quartararo and team-mate Francesco Bagnaia – may have been an element.
“I did not test the information [yet], however possibly it was one diploma extra [lean] angle. I do not know… however it’s true that I used to be behind two riders and possibly it was the primary time within the weekend that I used to be behind riders.
Marc Marquez, Ducati Workforce
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“After which possibly the tyre… [maybe] the bike modified a bit [compared to different rubber compounds earlier in the weekend] and I did not give it some thought after which for that purpose I made the error.”
Marquez remounted following the accident and was in a position to lap quick regardless of a Ducati that appeared decidedly worse for put on. He managed to battle his approach to twelfth place and declare 4 world championship factors for his efforts, throughout which he set the sixth-fastest lap late within the race.
Sitting only one level behind Alex after 5 of twenty-two rounds, the eight-time world champion will not panic simply but. “The vital factor is that the pace is there, however we have to keep away from the errors.
“I’m comfortable. When you don’t have the tempo and also you crash, you then say, ‘OK, now I’ve two issues to repair – the crash plus the tempo’. [But] the tempo is there. We simply must keep away from the errors.”
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