Marc Marquez responded to his Spanish Grand Prix disappointment by setting the tempo in Monday’s Jerez MotoGP check.
A day after his second race crash of the season, the manufacturing facility Ducati star was quickest in each periods on the official check.
“The nice factor is that the check was straight after [Sunday’s mistake],” Marquez stated. “I might affirm 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 centered Monday’s work on small refinements, together with front-end feeling, electronics, and Michelin tyre work.
“We had a protracted plan with many, many issues. Not very large new gadgets, however all the time small particulars,” he defined. “A few of them simply retrying from the final check 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 attempt properly. So we retried right here and a few of them had been optimistic.”
Regardless of the heavy workload, Marquez confirmed he remained on Ducati’s newest chassis, with no return to an older body. “No, we’re using with the identical one, the identical idea,” he stated.
Requested whether or not he used the chance to trip behind team-mate Francesco Bagnaia, after crashing within the pack throughout Sunday’s race, Marquez replied: “Only one lap. In that run, Pecco was using in 39s and I used to be approaching 37s. So I caught him but it surely was not within the plan.”
Marquez was the one rider within the 1m 35s on the check, 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.
