MADRID, 23 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Spanish MotoGP rider Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda) has assured that his seventh place in the Malaysian Grand Prix is ”more or less” what he expected from his career, since he “didn’t” have “the necessary speed to be with the leaders” despite starting from the front row.
“As I said yesterday, what we did in qualifying was above and this is more or less what I expected from our race. We gave 100% to get the best possible result, we started very well but I saw that I didn’t have the necessary speed to be with the leaders,” he said in statements provided by his team.
Thus, the man from Cervera tried to “find” his “place” and “avoid taking unnecessary risks” to get good information from the race. “I have done everything that Honda has asked me to do, so I am optimistic that they will use this information to improve in the future. Now we can start preparing for Valencia after a difficult weekend, because here we have been able to see the level of our bike I believe that we can be closer in Valencia”, he underlined.
For his part, his teammate Pol Espargaró, who finished fourteenth, acknowledged that he had “a difficult day”, “especially because of the temperature”. “It wasn’t as hot as in previous years, but the humidity was still very high. I was starting 20th and I had to be aggressive in the first few laps to make up ground. We were finally able to score two points here, gaining six places. Now the attention turns to focuses on Valencia, where I have been strong in the past and I think our bike will adapt better there”, he concluded.