Marc Marquez: "I was almost on the ground"

Marc Marquezfourth in the MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix, starred in one of his stunning saves on the entry curve to the straight end, at which point he thought “Jerez fans” had “lifted the bike” .

Márquez explained his career with “Ángel Nieto” in Jerez as follows: “it wasn’t a perfect start, I started well but Aleix came on the left and Jack on the right, and they both started in front of me and had wins, so I have to cut in the middle of the straight and then I have to make an aggressive first lap, attack, because I know it’s important to position myself and not lose the group in front ”.

“Two riders left, that’s what we all expected, and I knew Aleix was running faster than us, but he didn’t have Pecco and Fabio running, he was running very well in training, so when I saw. That’s where I thought. I said ‘let’s see how it goes’ and how we can manage it with Jack, but when I saw there were five more laps and he was behind I thought ‘look, we won the lotto’ (smiling) and we can be on the podium, I tried, my intention when I passed jack, to try to defend the position, but I moved a bit away from the last corner, and since I didn’t want to lose the position. the podium is there and we need to save that mistake “, Márquez continued.

“I was almost on the ground and I think, like I said in English, the Jerez fans picked up my bike and I tried it again to fight for fourth place and I fought it, I fought it. this as I fought Portimao with Alex the sixth, because I fought this fourth as if it were a victory, they were not optimistic but realistic goals, because in this way there is no failure and there is always little motivation. that will help you for the following races ”, the Repsol Honda pilot indicated.

“We’re still lacking, depending on the circuits it’s going to change, but this weekend we did it in the best way and I mean you can’t save every weekend the same way, but at the moment we are doing both in Portimao and here, maybe in Austin is where I felt stronger able to fight for the podium and even for victory, but can not and now we will see in the next races, but it is missing , it is still missing; I will not talk about recover points or in the next race, since we have to continue building, but hopefully tomorrow in the trials we can take another step and be closer, but we will also not come out of trials ready to win ”, admits Marc Márquez who is very sober.

“On the save I insisted, if I fell it was my fault because I was long and I wanted to insist on maintaining the position, but it wasn’t one of those days I fell and I don’t know why, it was one of those days that you want to take a risk and even though you know you’re in fourth position, you see the podium, you smell it, and you get hot ”, the Repsol rider admits.

“Suddenly the save put me in my seat and thankfully I didn’t fall, but I don’t know the details of it. I know what came out on TV, that I saw 65 degrees or something, but in telemetry I didn’t have any. time to look at it and, about the gloves, I don’t hand out things, but I stopped at the fan club stands and then I saw Nieto and Peluqui and I thought ‘here I have to throw something,’ he said by Márquez who explained that he threw them with his left hand “because on the right I didn’t get there”.

The Cervera pilot said he didn’t know what room for improvement he had left well, ”it can be seen in the following careers, from Austin or even after Austin, I started working in a more normal way, for the‘ x ’reason, when I stopped within two weeks the tone of muscles. a lot goes down and there you have to have the perseverance and perseverance that I have and this is what I will continue to get for the next careers to continue to thrive “.

“Not everyone is physical, not everyone is a motorcycle, not everyone is a team, like I say it’s always the team, but the bike doesn’t help either and I do everything on my part, but maybe I don’t its magic since then, I’m gone now, but I’m trying to bring it back and this is the way I’m going to try to push myself as hard as I can to keep improving “, insisted the Repsol Honda rider, who insisted that” I was both, because my head, my attention and the mind are the same and in experience you see things, but I always try to set realistic goals, because otherwise, then there is frustration.