Marc Marquez should keep away from the issue which has blighted Pecco Bagnaia, he has been warned.
The championship battle is alive with Alex Marquez topping the MotoGP standings earlier than racing will get underway this weekend at Le Mans.
Marc Marquez is one level shy of his brother, owing to 2 grand prix crashes in Texas and Jerez.
The latest incident at Jerez is a reminder to Marquez that he can not get sucked into the uphill battle that manufacturing unit Ducati teammate Bagnaia has fought all 12 months.
‘If you put Marc Marquez in visitors…’
Marc Marquez
“It would focus the thoughts for Marquez,” Dorna reporter Louis Suddaby mentioned in Le Mans.
“He mentioned the crash in Jerez wasn’t right down to a scarcity of focus, he was simply pushing too laborious.
“He is aware of that he can not afford to get crushed up within the early laps, and discover bikes between himself and the chief of the race.
“He was down in third or fourth place. That unbelievable first-lap battle with Pecco Bagnaia, who laid a couple of punches on him. We noticed contact between them. It was exhilarating.
“However once you put Marquez in visitors, he’s then bought to trip behind another person. He’s bought the new air coming off the bike in entrance, which Pecco mentioned is the basis of his issues.
“Pecco mentioned ‘now Marc is aware of how I really feel’.
“Marc shall be much more eager to take pole place, get to the entrance of the race within the dash and on Sunday if it’s dry, and never have any bikes forward of him which is the place his issues got here in Jerez.”
Marc Marquez to ‘trip inside himself?’
Jack Appleyard mentioned: “At no level in Jerez did he do any laps behind one other rider, to get an understanding of how the bike behaviour modified.
“He could do some laps – 4, 5 or 6 – behind one other rider to know how his bike behaves.”
Appleyard added: “Two kinds of crashes we’ve seen; the one in Austin, he held his arms up. It was a scarcity of focus, the win was coming to him, it was too simple.
“In Jerez, he spoke after the take a look at. He’d had 24 hours to ponder it, and mentioned he was pushing past his restrict.
“Will we now see Marc trip inside himself on Sunday? He is aware of that, if he desires to win this championship, he can’t be crashing out as continuously as he has been.”
The one two grands prix that Marquez has did not win has been when he crashed.
Bagnaia and Alex Marquez profited from these incidents, enabling them to maintain the title battle going.
