The India/Japan double-header supplied a fine addition for Marquez and Honda amidst an in any other case dire marketing campaign.
Marquez scored his first podium for the reason that season-opener within the India sprint when he was third, and was fighting in the rostrum battle in the grand prix at Buddh earlier than crashing out.
In Japan, Marquez was capable of fight through to third in the wet flag-to-flag grand prix to mark his first Sunday podium since Phillip Island 2022.
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The stop-and-go nature of Buddh and Motegi labored in favour of the Honda and masked a few of its weaknesses.
As such, Marquez doesn’t consider his latest type now units the tone for the rest of the marketing campaign.
“No. I imply, I wish to say sure,” he stated when requested if he might struggle on the entrance in dry circumstances going ahead.
“However India and right here [Motegi] is stop-and-go corners, and it’s right here the place I can take a threat on the braking level, flip and make a large pick-up to have a superb acceleration.
“However we’ll arrive at Mandalika and there are a number of corners the place it’s a must to use banking.
“It is advisable to use that edge grip, the traction, and it’s right here the place we’re shedding so much since you can not do something since you simply spin.
“I’ll attempt to do my finest like I do all the time, however it will likely be tougher. However even like this, we should benefit from the good moments.
“In India it was a superb weekend, as we speak [Sunday in Japan] and even [Saturday] was a superb dash race. So, let’s see if we will maintain going to the top of the season on this manner.”
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Marquez additionally heaped reward on title fighters Jorge Martin and Francesco Bagnaia for the way they rode within the Japanese GP, contemplating every part at stake for them, in such tough circumstances.
“I imply, it was superb,” the Honda rider added.
“If you find yourself combating for a championship, these sorts of circumstances, I understand how it’s.
“And it’s a large respect as a result of they did an excellent race, they’re combating, they’ve this additional focus, this additional push.
“Other than that, it was good to see the battle of those two guys from behind.”