The MotoGP season has already completed 14 rounds, but Marc Márquez is still not fully adapted to the Ducati – something natural, as he is competing for the first time with a different bike after ten years with the Honda RC213V.
The Spaniard from Gresini admitted he has particular difficulties with the tire when it is still new: ‘I feel uncomfortable with the new tyre, during all the season. When the tyre has six/seven laps, in some corners I’m faster than with the new tyre. So it’s there where I need to understand why, where we need to try a few things’.
During the Emilia Romagna GP, Márquez took the opportunity to work on this aspect, noting that high grip doesn’t provide the expected better sensations: ‘In this GP we started to try small things on the electronics to try to understand for my riding style. It’s true that I’m feeling uncomfortable with that amazing grip on the rear – that I was not used to for all my career’.
For the eight-time world champion, this represents a significant change in the necessary approach: ‘The way to do the time attack all my career, my concept, was completely different with another bike. And this is the hardest point to change’.