A year since Marc Marquez’s game-changing smile, he explains Ducati adaptation
Marc ♉Marquez details the stages of adaptation to his GP23
It has been almost a year since 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez’s smile lit up the MotoGP world.
After testing the Ducati for the first time at the postseason Valencia test🀅, his body language spoke a thousand wor𝓀ds and was in stark contrast to how he had acted recently on his Honda.
This weekend in Barcelona, Marquez will race the year-old Desmosedici for the last time before switching to Ducati’s facto𒈔ry-spec machinery in their official team in 2025.
Marquez told about the smile last year which started his Ducati jo♊urney: “It was more of peace of mind with myself, because when making a decision as important as that you have certain doubts.
“And after riding the same bike for 10 yℱears, I had doubts if I would know𒁃 how to ride the Ducati.
“But that's not because I didn’t see myself capable, otherwise I would༒n’t have made the decision.
“It surpris💎ed me, because in the first round I already𝓰 felt very good.
— Crash MotoGP (@crash_motogp)How Marquez adapted
Marquez explained the stages of adapting from a below-par Honda to the GP2ဣ3 Ducati which had won the championship ♈the previous year, and is now second only to the GP24.
“Th🍎e first is to understand how to ride that motorcycle, and you try to adapt to that,” he said.
“There comes a point where you can't adaꦛpt anymore, and you start working on what you need to feel more comfortable, or 🥀where I'm losing the most.
“Once you explore that point, the technician and rider begin to connect. That'🐟s another transition point ther🧸e in the middle.
“Once you are close to 🎉those competitive times, that is where you find that first wall, which is low and you can jump over.
“Then you skip it, and start exploiting more technically tuning details. I s🧸aid it in Jerez and Austin.
“But each time the🥀 wall is higher; now yo🅰u try and go back, and so on until you hit the key and move forward.”
Marquez has returned to grand prix-winning ways this season, claimin🐎g victory three times on a Sunday.
He is third in the championship, with one round to go, a single point ahead of Enea B🅷astianini.
Marquez has been clearly the fastest of the four GP23 ri🃏ders, enough to earn him the factory seat next season.
Adjusting to even better Ducati equipment wil✨l be the next stage of his r🌳emarkable adaptation.
James was a sports 💫journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, t🍌o football, to F1.
