BMW World Superbike rider Michael van der Mark says he “clearly” hasn’t misplaced his pace after claiming a double prime 5 on the current French spherical of the collection.
The Dutch rider loved a stable begin to the marketing campaign and was a daily prime 10 customer, earlier than his outcomes started to fade away from the Most spherical by means of to Balaton Park.
However there was a return to kind for Michael van der Mark at Magny-Cours, as he guided his BMW to fifth within the dash race and the second function contest.
He praised his workforce for persevering with to push him, whereas taking a jab at his doubters.
“I believe lots of people stated I’d misplaced it. Clearly I didn’t,” he advised WorldSBK.com.
“We labored very arduous with the workforce. We had plenty of talks. We examined so much. We had many concepts.
“And in addition reset through the summer time break.
“That helped so much and we see typically it’s very powerful and it’s good to have workforce behind you as a result of they push you, they maintain working, they usually all the time stayed calm.
“They believed in me and knew the pace was there as nicely.
“So, after right now, I confirmed them once more and likewise confirmed myself once more.”
Van der Mark was round three seconds again from scoring a primary podium of the season, however admits he didn’t have sufficient confidence in his bike to push for it in Race 2.
“I began to odor it however actually I used to be struggling a bit with the bike and I didn’t have the total confidence I hoped for,” he added.
“So, I needed to discover a center approach and for positive I attempted. However after the entire weekend, I actually wanted these factors.”
Van der Mark gained at Magny-Cours final yr, and shall be trying on the remaining rounds as a chance for larger outcomes after additionally attending to the rostrum at Jerez in 2024.
