Marquez endured an eventful opening day of the Australian Grand Prix weekend, as he crashed in each the opening follow session and once more within the afternoon’s second session, each instances on the gradual MG right-hander that follows Lukey Heights.
The Spaniard went into the weekend downplaying his possibilities of successful in any of his last races for Honda earlier than he strikes to Gresini Ducati subsequent yr, as he admitted he was in need of confidence on the RC213V following his crashes final outing in Indonesia.
Marquez defined that his crashes got here because of making an attempt to push the boundaries by way of the slower corners, the place the dangers are decrease, to make up for his lack of dedication by way of the quicker segments of the observe.
“I didn’t have faith and that early crash in FP1 didn’t assist,” stated Marquez after ending up a lowly Sixteenth-fastest in FP2.
“Principally, I don’t have lots of confidence, and there are quicker corners. So on the quickest corners I’m not pushing, I’m simply cruising. I’m simply pushing within the gradual corners and it’s there the place I’m crashing, however that’s very secure.
“It’s simply the quick corners, I don’t really feel [good] in the intervening time.”
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Marc Marquez, Repsol Honda Crew
“He’s driving in a really totally different manner however in a great way with this Honda,” stated Marquez of Rins, who received at Phillip Island final yr driving for Suzuki. “However the degree is sort of shut.
“I’ll evaluate [the data] simply to grasp, however the lap time is only one tenth [faster]. I adopted somebody, he adopted another person, so it’s not the best way to do the lap time. On the race tempo, we’re comparable.”
Marquez was Positive in regards to the determination to move the main race of the weekend to Saturday amid the specter of dangerously excessive winds on Sunday, however conceded that it is going to be harder to go straight into the 27-lap encounter from qualifying.
“It won’t change rather a lot for the dash, however for the primary race it adjustments extra as a result of you could have much less time to grasp the rear tyre,” he stated. “Will probably be extra of a big gamble as a result of we nonetheless don’t know the tyre consumption.”