Marc Márquez started the Sprint race at Misano in ninth place and finished fifth, and explained that this happened despite the difficulties the track presents, due to his extra speed compared to the competition.
Asked how he still managed to gain positions within the group of riders he was in, with many having problems with front wheel lock-ups, the Spaniard clarified:
– The difference was that I was half a second faster than the riders in front of me and so I was able to overtake. If you’re 0.1 or 0.2s faster than those in front of you, you can’t overtake. For example, Bagnaia was behind Martín and it was impossible to overtake. You need to be much faster.
On what he considers most critical about this track Márquez replied: ‘It’s very narrow, you can’t use the air cone, but then you apply a lot of force when braking. In Austria you have a lot of braking points, but then the air cone on the straight helps you, and here it’s one of the most difficult tracks to overtake’.