Marc Márquez narrowly missed going directly to the second qualifying session in the MotoGP Thai GP. The Repsol Honda rider posted the 11th best time in Friday’s practice, just 0.065s off the qualification cutoff.
In six-time premier class champion’s view, his performance was in line with expectations, although he acknowledges that securing a spot in the qualifying session will be a challenging task: ‘The performance was good. We were there between 10th and 15th, it’s our position at the moment. I tried my best to be in the Q2, but it was not possible. We were very close, but we are out. So, in the end tomorrow will be very difficult to jump to Q2, but we will try to do our best’.
Regarding the wing from Jorge Martín’s Ducati hitting him, Márquez commented: ‘Before the time attack we were going on the box. I didn’t realise in the moment that it was a piece from his bike; I thought that it was something on the track. But it hit me in the shoulder and at that time was painful, but then it was no limitation for the time attack’.