After his highly competitive debut, Marc Márquez once again showed a smile that had been “hidden” for so long after his performance but, he revealed, he wants to see how his performance is on other less favorable tracks and, when reminded of the tests in Valencia, he immediately received a warning: he only had one bike to test, nothing more.
After talking about the very familiar atmosphere within Honda, Márquez revealed that it will not be possible to reproduce it in just one year: ‘Creating the same atmosphere will be impossible because the atmosphere I had at Honda took 13 years and doing it here in one year is impossible but, in the end, you have to have a professional attitude and from the first day I feel very comfortable’.
He also clarified that the goal is to be fast and that, gradually, the Gresini team and he will become more united: ‘At the end of the day, it cannot be compared and it is not the objective […]. We are here to try to find the best performance, the best results, and over time, results, races, the relationship will become better and better, and we will start to understand each other, it is a natural process’.
Recalling the tests in Valencia at the end of 2023 and his first outing with the Desmosedici, where he did seven laps, the Spaniard remembered that he had to remain calm since there was only one bike available to him, without forgetting that he is very curious to see the potential of the Ducati on tracks that are not usually the most friendly for him:
– I felt comfortable. The lap time appeared because I felt comfortable with the bike and from the first outing, when I started pushing a little, the lap time appeared, but I am more curious to test the bike in Malaysia, Qatar, and on circuits where I have more difficulties, because in Valencia I am normally very fast every year. But it was a good way to start, and of course, I was calm because I only had one bike in the garage and I was used to having four during the tests in Valencia and this time I only had one and they told me: “If you fall, you finish the test,” so I was calm, step by step, feeling the bike, and now I am curious to see my level and how I feel in the tests in Malaysia.
