Marc Marquez delivers sombre verdict on double-DNF disaster at Indonesian MotoGP
His first🤪 round since confirming that he will swap Repsol Honda for Gresini Ducati next year, M🌺arquez failed to finish either the sprint race or the grand prix.
“The weekend started in a go♓od way but then day by day, it became more complicated,” he reacted.
“Today in the race I kept calm, I was losing a little bit of ground, but I was not panicking. The aim was to finish the race and I was riding🏅 with this in mind.
“Unfortunately, at one point in Turn 13 I lost the front and I couldn’t save it. A tricky 𒈔crash to understand but we start thinking about Australia.”
After his weekend ended in the gravel, a miserable Marquez stayed at the barriers for a while, watching the other bikes goꦯ past.
"I was trying to understand the mꦐistake I had made,” he said to .
“I didn't do anything special, I was following what I felt the bi♛ke was asking ofꩲ me.
“The telemetry says that I did the same thing as the previou🦩s l💃ap and I fell, my mistake.
"I have apologised to the team and I am going to face these five remaining races in the best possඣible way.
"We have two circuits left where we will suffer a lot and two where we can do a💜 little better, let's see if we ca♕n save the situation in the best way we can.”
Marquez to change mentality for final rounds with Honda
His la🀅test fall in the Indonesian MotoGP🐼 is the 23rd of this season.
"One more, twenty-something this year, well, it𒁏's over, five races,” a frustrated Marquez said.
“I want to apologise𝔍 to the team, this weekend we have g𓄧one from more to less, normally it was the other way around, from less to more.
“Now it's time to take a little step back. In the last races, from India, it seemed that we were further ahead, you get encouraged, you see yourself more with the first and this makes you losℱe your reference.
“Now it's time to return to the mentality of Silverstone and Montmelo, take a little steღp back🉐 and finish races."
Marquez shifted ✱his mind-set at the mid-way point of 2023 after a harrowing Sachsenring weekend full of crashes, and focused solely on completing races.
This s💫eason he has finished just five grands prix.
Marquez said: "I was very calm, after the sprint I wa🌊s very calm, I have ꦉnot been stressed, but it was one of those falls that you do not see coming.
“Without warning I꧂ fell, it is worse to fall trying not to 🌠fall than to push.
“Yesterday (in the sprint) I understood the fall, not today🦄.
"Now w👍e have to take a step back and return to the mentality of finishing races. My intention today was to finish and return the bike to the garage."
The Australian MotoGP begins on Friday.
Jame🎃s was a sports 🧔journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
