Ducati rider Marc Marquez admits he “was not on my restrict” in any respect throughout his domination of final Sunday’s MotoGP German Grand Prix.
The eight-time world champion led from begin to end within the 30-lap grand prix on the Sachsenring final weekend to assert his seventh victory of the season.
Having additionally received the moist dash on Saturday, it marked his fourth successive 37-point weekend in 2025 and his seventh total to increase his championship result in 83 factors coming into this weekend’s Czech Grand Prix.
Marc Marquez admits he wasn’t on the restrict at German MotoGP
A lot of his rivals famous after the German Grand Prix how exact Marc Marquez regarded in the course of the race.
However he says this was all the way down to him not pushing to his restrict as he was taking care of his tyres.
“I imply, after all while you arrive in a circuit the place you’re feeling good and for my using type is ideal… even it was good situations as a result of it was a bit slippery and I like this,” he mentioned.
“However I used to be in an ideal line within the right approach in each nook as a result of I used to be not on my restrict.
“So, my restrict was 1m20.4s, 1m20.3s as I confirmed on the apply.
“However at this time I simply tried to handle the tyres from the start as a result of I knew that the race was tremendous lengthy.
“It’s true that ultimately the tyres dropped greater than I anticipated. However even like this I felt snug.”
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Even with out pushing at his most, Marquez got here away with the quickest lap of the race and was over six seconds away from the sphere behind him on the chequered flag.
The Ducati rider additionally famous that he knew from apply that his dry tempo was higher than his rivals.
“After all, tremendous pleased as a result of this was one of many tracks that I mark on the calendar to assault,” he added.
“The final two ones had been to defend.
“However it’s true that as we all know it’s a particular race monitor for me and we did an ideal weekend, tremendous concentrated, particularly yesterday was crucial day of the weekend in these rain situations.
“And at this time I knew within the dry my rhythm was a bit sooner than the others. I simply tried to not exaggerate and move on the race monitor.”
