It was a very happy Marc Márquez that we saw in the closed park at Le Mans, as the rider managed to finish the Sprint race in second place, something that impressed himself as he admitted, while noting that it will be more difficult to achieve the same result tomorrow.
Asked if he ever thought that reaching second place was possible, the Spanish rider was clear: ‘No, no. I mean, I was talking to the team and the goal was to be among the top seven, eight, because the pace was there, but the problem is that we made a mistake yesterday and today I made a mistake in Q1, then the yellow flag and so on…’
Márquez continued and considered what he did as ‘impressive’: ‘We had a bit of bad luck but it seems that in the Sprint race the pace was there and in some laps I was even at the same pace as [Jorge] Martín and [Marco] Bezzecchi who was the fastest. So yes, I am super happy, it was impressive, but tomorrow it will be difficult to repeat the same start because today was perfect.’