“It will be a long time before I can attack at the end”

Marc Marquez The fourth in the Japanese Grand Prix held in Motegi ensured that “the weekend” “left a very good taste in his mouth. Even much better than in Aragon, where I went well and the fastest lap in qualifying was good, even though I finished thirteenth, but I went out alone, things I couldn’t do before but I’m doing little by little, although I still have some left”, he admitted.

“The feeling of the weekend is very, very good, it is true that we have to be realistic and with a completely dry weekend in all the sessions the position would not have been this, but something behind, but they have been the same conditions for everyone, we know how to adapt well and, above all, in the race I was consistent from start to finish, without inventing”, recalled Márquez.

Technical problem with your motorcycle

“When I saw on the first lap that I had a problem that I could solve by changing the map, and I was fifth, I said, we’re not inventing, if I’m in front, maybe you are. I was going to try to push a little bit, but I saw that it was difficult for me to catch up, that it was difficult for me to get close to Oliveira and that made me do the whole race, that it had been a long time. time since I was able to attack at the end and it was the other way around, that they always attacked me”, continued the Repsol rider.

The healing

“It’s a long process. From Aragón to here I hardly notice any improvement, but if I have, I don’t realize it. Right now I’m here talking and I don’t touch my arm, but if something hurts, you don’t realize you touched it.”

“During the press conference yesterday, I touched a bit, stretched, rotated my arm and it’s not just muscles, there are nerves inside that stretch and when the muscle contracts again… the doctors told me that it’s a whole process,” he explained.

Surprised at the end of his career

“I didn’t expect to finish so well. In Aragón I did expect to finish well, but here I didn’t expect to finish so well and I can attack in the last lap, yes there are symptoms because my left arm. it was like a stone and certainly in a way I was compensated by the left arm but the right arm ended well and above all I did not feel the pain reaching your head, which even adrenaline does not give it”.

Oliveira caught up

“In the first lap, if it had rolled more, at that point I would have passed Binder, but I fell in the ‘warm up’ in that corner and in the first lap I didn’t want to invent because I wasn’t comfortable. in trouble which I had, but then, during the race, I was gaining confidence and also the sensations and I was clearly two points ahead”.

“The safest is that one, what happens is I don’t know how to overtake others, but you have to overtake aggressively on these bikes, otherwise long braking is almost impossible because it’s so easy lose the curve. , lose the radius of the curve and they pass you again on the way out”, explained the Repsol Honda rider.