The MotoGP tests in Sepang did not start in a pleasant way for Marc Márquez. The Gresini rider finished ninth, but was a victim of several technical problems that greatly affected his performance.
The six-time champion summarized Tuesday as follows: ‘Today was a very hectic day, a strange day, because we had several problems with the team. But the good thing is that the team reacted well and fixed everything. But everything that could happen, happened today. In fact, we were not able to work well, I was not able to have confidence with the bike. And it was only in the last hour of the afternoon that we did some consecutive laps and then we started to feel better with the bike‘.
When asked if this is a consequence of being in a smaller team, Márquez denied that it is the case and praised Gresini’s good reaction to the problems: ‘Yesterday we were talking about this and for example, my brother didn’t have any problems all day, and last year the team didn’t have any problems during any practice. But today, every time I went to the track, I came four times through the service road. It was bad luck, but the most important thing was that it was the first day of testing and the team reacted in a good way and fixed things very professionally‘.
