Marc Márquez heads into this Australian GP with many doubts and few certainties regarding the performance that the RC213V can have, but not only. The rider admitted that falling twice in Mandalika was not at all positive, with Sunday’s crash denting his confidence.
Now with the free practices about to start, in less than 24 hours, Márquez admits… not knowing what to expect: ‘This year, coming here, it’s hard to understand if our level will be good or not. In some tracks where we don’t expect to be fast, we end up being so, but yes in the past we have been fast here but there are no expectations, I want to go out on track and try to understand FP1’.
Afterwards he explained the source of some mistrust and what motivated him: ‘It is true that I come from a difficult weekend, which for me was normal but we saw it in a good way and we arrived at a circuit where we had more difficulties and I did not accept it and when you do not accept it you start to fall more than normal. Now I have to take a step back again, recreate that confidence this weekend and see what we can do’.
Still with the last GP in mind, the Repsol Honda rider recalled the last round and how it ended up being “heavy” for him:
– In Indonesia we started the weekend very well, I arrived motivated, but also because on Friday the limit was the grip of the track, and then the track started to get better during the weekend and then we started to suffer more than normal. The grid position was eighth but the pace was not there, we were far away and the other three Hondas were last. In the Sprint I fell on the first lap and then in the main race I was calmer but still I fell again, and that fall took away a lot of confidence from me because it was a fall that I did not understand. I understood the one in the Sprint.
And he concluded: ‘Well… it’s normal. After the summer break I arrived with a different mentality and then I started to have more confidence and then in Misano, India and Motegi they were good races, good weekends and now again a step back and we will try to come back’.
