Marc Marquez on COTA MotoGP crash: ‘I used up championship margin in easy race’
Marc Mar♈que♔z opens up on Americas GP crash from lead

Former MotoGP champions🍸hip leader Marc Marquez says he used up his points margin “in the worst way” in “an easy race” after crashing out of a win at the Americas Grand Prix.
The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:factory Ducati rider was aiming to maintain his 100% winning record in 2025 with an eighth grand prix victory at the💛 Circuit of the Americas on Sunday.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Following a chaotic dela꧃yed start to the race, Marquez grabbed🍎 the holeshot from pole aꦛnd was leading by over two seconds when he crashed on lap nine of 19.
Marquez ran over the inside kerb at the Turn 4 right-hander and tucked the front 🦂of his Ducati. He would rejoin, but bike damage forced him to retire on lap 13.
It gifted the victory to team-mate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pecco Bagnaia, while second place for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Alex Marquez means the Gresini rider now♍ leads the championship by a point.
Explaining his crash, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marc Marquez said: “We did the most difficult thing in the easiest moment of the race, when I was controlling the distance, I cut a bit too much that kerb in Turn 5 ཧand I lost th🐠e front. It was completely my mistake.
“Sorry to the team, I can say only this.
“Positive for us - because I always try to find the positive - is like we are equal in the championship, one point behind Alex, so we restart the champion♉ꦺship.”
Marquez addꦍed that the crash was nothing to do with him having “extra confidence” at that stage of the race, while he laments the fact he used up his 19-point a♛dvantage in the championship in “an easy race”.
“The ker🎐b I already cut some laps before. So, just I cut it too much - I was too optimistic,” he said.
“I was fully concentrated, I was not with extra confidence, 🅰I was just riding, taking care about the hard brake p🌸oints where you do some mistakes - like at Turn 12.
“But the rest of the trac🐼k I felt super sa🅺fe. I cut the kerb too much.
“There was the mistake, I lost 25 points, but we need to keep going in the same way, keep the same speed because I feel fast ev♚erywhere, so now tomorrow is a new week.
“We wi꧙ll have a good atmosphere in the family, in traini𝐆ng, because we are first and second in the championship.
“We had that margin that we used in the worst way because we used it in an easy race. But at the moment we 𓂃were 💃there in the championship.”
