Marc Marquez responded to his Spanish Grand Prix disappointment by setting the tempo in Monday’s Jerez MotoGP take a look at.
A day after his second race crash of the season, the manufacturing facility Ducati star was quickest in each classes on the official take a look at.
“The great factor is that the take a look at was straight after [Sunday’s mistake],” Marquez stated. “I might verify the great emotions from the weekend, and we had been quick all through the day.”
Now sitting only one level behind youthful brother and Spanish GP winner Alex Marquez on this planet championship standings, Marc targeted Monday’s work on small refinements, together with front-end feeling, electronics, and Michelin tyre work.
“We had an extended plan with many, many issues. Not very massive new gadgets, however all the time small particulars,” he defined. “A few of them simply retrying from the final take a look at in Thailand. However the feeling was good all through the day.”
Among the many key areas was revisiting some digital settings from the pre-season, which Marquez stated had not been correctly evaluated because of the emphasis on chosing between the GP24 and GP25 ‘idea’.
“We tried some Michelin tyres. We tried the brand new digital [software], that I do not know which race [MotoGP] will introduce. And we re-tried some digital issues that we had within the pre-season, however with [deciding] the idea of GP25-24 we could not strive effectively. So we retried right here and a few of them had been constructive.”
Regardless of the heavy workload, Marquez confirmed he remained on Ducati’s newest chassis, with no return to an older body. “No, we’re driving with the identical one, the identical idea,” he stated.
Requested whether or not he used the chance to journey behind team-mate Francesco Bagnaia, after crashing within the pack throughout Sunday’s race, Marquez replied: “Only one lap. In that run, Pecco was driving in 39s and I used to be approaching 37s. So I caught him however it was not within the plan.”
Marquez was the one rider within the 1m 35s on the take a look at, with KTM’s Maverick Vinales 0.361s behind in second and Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo in third (0.477s).
The subsequent spherical takes place at Le Mans in two weeks.
