2023-04-16 00:25:55
Álex Márquez has reaped his first zero since he was at Gresini Racing. The Catalan driver was unable to finish the Sprint Race of the Grand Prix of the Americas this Saturday, an appointment to which Álex arrived in a very good position after having achieved the fourth best time in Q2 held hours earlier at the Circuit of the Americas.
Already in the race, The Catalan did not take long to recover from a bad start, got rid of Johann Zarco and Fabio Quartararo and placed fourth behind the wheel of Jorge Martín. However, during the seventh lap, the youngest of the Márquez brothers made a mistake when braking at the demanding turn 12 and ended up rolling on the ground, luckily without having to complain about any injuries.
With the race now over, the man from Cervera spoke with DAZN about what happened and acknowledged that today he looked fast enough to finish, at least, in the top five: “A podium I don’t know, but at least fifth place and keep adding points, yes. I started the race very badly, I went wrong and in the first corner I was able to fix it more or less”.
After this bad start, the one from Gresini tried to “don’t get nervous” and he was taking advantage of the mistakes that the pilots who were rolling in front of him were making: “In the first lap I tried not to get nervous, I knew that overtaking is difficult here, it was a bit of a waste, because every lap, on the back straight, someone was always going long and it was easy to make mistakes.”
Everything was going more or less well until, after halfway through the race and consolidated in fourth place, Márquez vomited inside his helmet and ended up losing control of his Ducati: “Halfway through the race I started to feel sick to my stomach, and just when I fell, during that braking, I vomited. The body has collapsed, something has made me sick about the food, I have eaten the usual, but for whatever reason I have vomited, I have released brakes, and when I hit again I have entered the too inclined appendix”.
Álex Márquez’s discomfort did not stop here, and after arriving at the team’s box he vomited once more: “When I got to the office I vomited again, but everything was clean. Something has gone wrong with me and I had a stopper. I want to rest for tomorrow, it will be a long and hard race, we have rhythm. Without strength I was able to more or less keep up, and I’m happy about it. To improve the output, it is the clear point”.
Fall from @alexmarquez73! After a good qualifying, and a bad start… he crashed when he was looking for the podium ????#AmericasGP ???????? #MotoGP ???? pic.twitter.com/v3V7YfM3CM
— DAZN Spain (@DAZN_ES) April 15, 2023
Leaving aside this unpleasant anecdote, Álex Márquez has realized how much he needs to improve his outings with the Ducati: “The start is costing me with this bike. It’s a different clutch than the Honda, and it’s a bit… if I had to change one thing on this bike, compared to the Honda, it would be the dropouts. But everything cannot be good. Tomorrow I will try to start neither well nor badly, as standard I would be satisfied, and spend the first lap third with the leading group, and that Pecco opens the way for us, who has something more than all the rest”.
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Lastly, when asked about what happened with Pecco Bagnaia during Q2 -when the Italian has avoided giving him the wheel up to two times-, the man from Gresini has given his point of view and has tried to clarify what he considers a misunderstanding: “People have misinterpreted it a bit, they have seen it as a battle between him and me, and it was not so much that, it was that we had two more pilots behind. We were first and second, well I am not going to pull the whole train and he I didn’t want to either. In the end I wanted to pull Marini, but not the whole train. It was more that game. People have interpreted it as a battle between him and me, but that was what we had behind us.“.
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