• 2024 Official Sepang MotoGP Test results - Day 3

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez has offered his most detailed breakdown so f♎ar of his adaption to riding a Ducati.

Marquez was sixth-fastest on the final day of the MotoGP preseason test in ꧟Sepang and 𓆉there are subtle indications that he’s finding his groove.

Ducati rival Jorge Martin has tipped him to fight for the win at the first race of the season but Marquez is insisting that he might need longer to re-discover his form on a new ♐bike.

Marquez was asked if he would be able to ride the Ducati instinctively, and he replied: “I hope 🎃so. But this takes time.

💫“When Jorge Lorenzo juꦺmped to Ducati, everyone said ‘he will not adapt’.

“Then he started winning races in the middle o🤪f the [next seas♛on].

“My brother,ꦅ last year, started not-so-good then was good in the middl🍰e of the season.

“So let’s see if I’m able to arrive at t﷽he top level.

“Of course, the level is there. But not enough.

“To be faster you need to be on the race track.

“One of the issues I could have at race weekends - with Honda, after two runs, I was already🦋 on the lap times. Here, these three days, it💛 took a lot of time to get a good lap time. In a test this is possible but on a race weekend, no.

“I need to understand how to be fast൩er on the good lap times🐎.”

Marq🎉uez stunned at the postseason Valencia on his Ducati debut.

But his three days in Sepang have pres☂ented teething problems in his effort to adapt from the Honda.

Did he expect to adapt quicker?

“No,” he said. “൩Valencia is a very special track for me.

“Even on the Sunday I fought for ♏the podium and victory w🐠ith Honda.

“I knew that reality would arrive here.

“I am happy a🀅bout our progression. We need to understand the way to arrive, like Jorge Martin did on the first day. Why? He knew how to ride the bike. I still don’t know.”

Marquez brutalised himself with a tough third d♕ay in Sepang, despite being clearly tired after completing m🎃ore laps than anybody 24 hours earlier.

He explained why: “I was really onඣ the limit. For that reason, I took a longer break at midday.

“Another spr🐼int race [sim] was not in the plan after 72 laps yesterday. But I said ‘I need to make the last effortꦛ’.

“I don💃’t know if in the future I will arrive at the level of the top guys.

“But I don’t want to have the doubt.

“Keep working, keep working, that’s the key.

“I don’t want⛎ to have [reꦦgret]. I will do it. I will insist.”

Marquez finished sixth-fastest on the third day of the Sepang tes🍌t,&n🅠bsp;+0.588s behind leader Francesco Bagnaia.

“Overall at the test, the progression was positive,” ♌he said.

“This is the most important.

“The first day was difficult. The second day I started to wo✤rk a lot of laps, I was close to th❀e pace, but far on the time attack.

“This morning I woke up at 7am and did a time attack! T🥂oday the time attack was better, it was a c⭕ompletely different riding style compared to Honda.

“I adjusted😼 a few things on 🌳the bike and a few things in my riding style.

“The ༺team is also starting to understand me better.

“The time attack was better but still half-a-second from the top 🎃guys. But they are super fa🍬st.

“On race pace, we are closer. I🥃n the simulation of a sprint race, in some corners I was faster than my time attack.”

So, is Marquez enjoying his new bike yet?

“It’s 𝐆never enough,” he replied. “Step by step I am working and feeling better.

“Still, I am riding too stiff on the bike. I cannot play with the body like Enea Bastianini or Jorge Martinꦇ.

“Pecco does not play with the body a lot and he’s fast🐽.

“Still, I need to unders🌞tand the exit of the corner. That’s where you really mak🔴e the lap times with this bike.

“This is to take maximum profit. The Honda was opposite - the time attack was more on the entry. With this bike, it’s🌺 more on the exit.”

He compared last season’s Honda to his ‘23𒁏 Ducati: “With the Honda you jump into the corner super-quick. With this one, you need to take care of a few things in the♏ time attack.

“I understand better how to set up the bike.

“Also thཧe technicians understand better how to set up the electronics for my riding style.

🌄“The engine, brakes, torques, delivery - you start with a base but every rider has their style.”

The fastest Marquez on Thursday wa🀅s Alex, who 🍨went fourth-quickest.

Marc reacted: “Alex, months ago, was the winner of 𝄹the sprint race here. And on the front row. 💧Second in the race.

“Today he was super fast which is g൩ood fo෴r the team.

“In the time attack he did an incredible time, behind the three factory Ducatis. This is po🦩sitive.

“On race pace, we were closer. He was super fast.

“Of course I wish the best for my teamma🐠te and my brother.”