2023-08-21 01:20:14
Marc Marquez admitted that it was not until the tenth race of the season that he won his first point in MotoGP this year, which “looked like a joke!”. But finishing in twelfth place on the Red Bull Ring track, this is also the first time Marc Marquez has finished in the main race in the various sub-stations that have been held in 2023. In the previous nine races, five of them were absent. The remaining four games were all packed and dismissed in advance with DNF.
“Yeah! It sounds like a joke, but it’s the truth. It’s my first Sunday finish and my first points of the season!” Marquez said. Easy to understand, I mean, you have to look at the race from a different angle, like I was at Silverstone, I did flip over, but it was a track accident, not me going over the limit.”
“In the Red Bull Ring I raced on the rear soft tyre, I found my rhythm step by step, I was a little bit faster in the middle half of the race, I found it felt good, in the end, the tire also dropped a lot as expected, But it’s acceptable.”
Before the Austrian race, Marc Marquez scored a point with Portimao third in the sprint, Le Mans fifth in the sprint and Mugello seventh in the sprint. In the sprint race in Austria, the eight-time world champion finished 12th.
In Sunday’s main race, Marquez started from the 18th place. His steady running style was 23 seconds behind Francesco Bagnaia, the champion of the race, but he was also the best HONDA driver in this race.
“Of course I’m not happy regarding being 23 seconds behind the leader, but that’s not the mentality I need, we need to look at the race differently and I try to finish the race without making any mistakes, for a driver like me , it’s not easy, but it’s the only way at the moment, when you don’t feel 100% comfortable in the car, you can easily make mistakes, just like yesterday’s Nakagami and today’s Mir.”
The Austrian station is also the first weekend for HONDA RC213V to use the newly designed aero kit version, but the problem of RC213V’s grip on the rear wheel still exists.
“We tried a lot of things this weekend. Every time we came out of the garage, it was a different car. This morning’s warm-up race also changed a lot, but I know this is not the direction we want. We do it in the race. With some small changes, things are a little bit better, but in the opposite direction to the warm-up race, so we are analyzing it step by step, because with the modified version of the aero package, the car has a completely different personality.”
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