“We destroyed our weekend with the qualifying crash” – these had been the phrases of Marc Marquez two weeks in the past, after driving from ninth to fifth place within the San Marino Dash race.
Marquez then capitalised on a Sunday rain bathe to grab a shock second Ducati MotoGP victory.
Returning to Misano for this weekend’s Emilia Romagna spherical, historical past repeated itself when Marquez once more crashed in qualifying and was left to begin from the third row, in seventh.
“I don’t really feel totally comfy on [new] tyres and we have to attempt to preserve enhancing to get nearer to Pecco and Martin,” Marquez stated.
The Spaniard took fourth place within the afternoon Dash. However this time, Marquez’s beginning place hadn’t been the difficulty.
A swift getaway and go on Brad Binder noticed Marquez attain fourth by the top of lap 1 of 13.
However regardless of happening to set a race time quick sufficient to win the earlier San Marino Dash, Marquez wasn’t fast sufficient to bother the trio of GP24s forward.
Marquez finally dropped 5.386s behind race winner Francesco Bagnaia and was compelled to fend off the KTM of Pedro Acosta.
“Had we began on the entrance row right now, we’d have nonetheless completed fourth,” confessed Marquez.
“The highest three guys have one thing extra, as you noticed right now. I used to be fourth on the primary lap, however they had been sooner than us.”
Most riders are anticipated to once more change from the smooth to medium rear tyre for Sunday’s full-length grand prix, however Marquez doesn’t count on a shake-up within the order.
“I believe [fourth] can be our aim for tomorrow as properly,” he stated.
Brother and team-mate Alex Marquez was the one rider to make use of the medium rear within the Dash, after being left twenty first on the grid as a consequence of a crash.
“Our confidence can’t be as excessive with these crashes, but it surely was necessary to do properly within the dash race and collect some information forward of tomorrow,” he stated after taking the flag in 14th.
“We began final and we recovered many positions whereas racing with the medium rear tyre to be able to have higher reference for the race
“I’m nonetheless unsure what my selection can be for tomorrow, however we certainly now have extra information to have a clearer comparability between smooth and medium choices.”
Mixed Emilia Romagna/San Marino Dash race occasions (13 laps):
1 Francesco BAGNAIA 19’50.237 Emilia Romagna
2 Jorge MARTIN 19’50.522 Emilia Romagna
3 Enea BASTIANINI 19’51.556 Emilia Romagna
4 Marc MARQUEZ 19’55.623 Emilia Romagna
5 Jorge MARTIN 19’56.502 San Marino
6 Pedro ACOSTA 19’56.817 Emilia Romagna
7 Francesco BAGNAIA 19’57.997 San Marino
8 Franco MORBIDELLI 19’58.334 San Marino
9 Brad BINDER 19’58.38 Emilia Romagna
10 Enea BASTIANINI 19’58.543 San Marino
11 Fabio QUARTARARO 19’58.642 Emilia Romagna
12 Marco BEZZECCHI 19’59.202 Emilia Romagna
13 Franco MORBIDELLI 19’59.508 Emilia Romagna
14 Maverick VIÑALES 19’59.775 Emilia Romagna
15 Miguel OLIVEIRA 20’1.779 Emilia Romagna
16 Aleix ESPARGARO 20’2.286 Emilia Romagna
17 Marc MARQUEZ 20’2.971 San Marino
18 Pedro ACOSTA 20’3.298 San Marino
19 Brad BINDER 20’6.481 San Marino
20 Alex MARQUEZ 20’6.803 Emilia Romagna
21 Jack MILLER 20’7.228 San Marino
22 Fabio QUARTARARO 20’7.517 San Marino
23 Alex MARQUEZ 20’7.854 San Marino
24 Maverick VIÑALES 20’8.160 San Marino
25 Aleix ESPARGARO 20’8.585 San Marino
26 Jack MILLER 20’9.648 Emilia Romagna
27 Luca MARINI 20’10.338 Emilia Romagna
28 Johann ZARCO 20’10.835 Emilia Romagna
29 Raul FERNANDEZ 20’10.979 Emilia Romagna
30 Fabio DI GIANNANTONIO 20’13.056 Emilia Romagna
31 Takaaki NAKAGAMI 20’15.631 Emilia Romagna
32 Augusto FERNANDEZ 20’15.668 Emilia Romagna
33 Joan MIR 20’17.445 Emilia Romagna
34 Johann ZARCO 20’17.621 San Marino
35 Pol ESPARGARO 20’18.044 San Marino
36 Miguel OLIVEIRA 20’18.497 San Marino
37 Augusto FERNANDEZ 20’19.944 San Marino
38 Raul FERNANDEZ 20’20.782 San Marino
39 Luca MARINI 20’21.249 San Marino
40 Alex RINS 20’21.375 San Marino
41 Takaaki NAKAGAMI 20’21.656 San Marino
*8-second post-race time penalty.
