Marc Marquez believes he can challenge Jorge Martin in Sunday’s MotoGP Australian Grand Prไix, but no🌄t if it is “like a rally race”.

Marquez topped Friday’s runnin🏅g at Phillip Island, but was convinced the GP24s would take a step forward compared to him come Saturday once they’d had time to analyse data from pra🎶ctice.

Indeed, Martin dominated a tricky qualifying to claim pole ahead of Marquez and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:was untouchable in the sprint 💞as he beat the Gresini rider by 1.5s after easing off in the last lap🧔s.

Marquez’s rac൲e was compromised by him not ‘calculating’ Martin’s braking point at Turn 1 on the first lap, which sent the eight-time world champion wide and forced him into a fightback from eighth.

“Today before the race I said ‘Ok, will be a normal first lap and then 🍎it will be an easier race’,” he told 🦂motogp.com.

“But immediately i🌳n the first corn꧟er I did a mistake. I didn’t calculate well the way that Martin braked.

“It’s true th💯at he braked super aggressively but it’s the way to disengage the front device, the rear device after the start.

“So, that small mistake plus the wind cost me a lot ౠof positions. Then, from that point, I concentrated well, I trieᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚd to push from the beginning on that lap, don’t exaggerate because it’s easy to exaggerate and do more mistakes.

“So, I just focused on that second position. When I arrived ther🃏e I tried to push for two laps, but I saw Martin reacted in a good way. Tomorrow we w𝔉ill have another opportunity.”

Marquez believes he can challeജnge Martin on Sunday, but fears that a spread out ‘rally race’ will favour the Pramac rid🌞er more than him.

“Maybe yes, ma🎃ybe no,” heꦐ replied when asked if he could take the fight to Martin in the grand prix.

“I think yes, but of course at the moment, honestly speaking, tomorrow if we have like a ‘rally race’ [with]ಞ everybody alone, he’s faster than me.

“So, let’s see if ⛄we can 💙do a good first lap and especially try to understand the wind, the track temperature, because here the wind direction changes and it changes the riding style.”

In terms of tyre choice for the🤪 grand prix, Marquez is unsure what approa🌜ch he will take and needs Michelin “to inform” him about any potential blistering that might occur.  

“📖Right n𝓀ow, in the sprint, the soft rear was the correct option,” he said.

“But we need to cut the tyre, understand how the tyre wea💧r is. Michelin𝓀 needs to inform the teams how is that famous blistering because new asphalt normally it’s there.

“But le🌳t’s see. I think it will be between ཧthe soft rear and medium, but it will be crucial because here when you drop the tyre you can be one, two seconds slower.”