Marc Marquez has defined his “unfortunate” begin to MotoGP’s Austrian Grand Prix, with a damaged tyre valve and entrance journey top machine woes, adopted by contact at Flip 1, inflicting him to plummet from third on the grid to thirteenth after the primary nook.
The Gresini Ducati rider’s begin to Sunday’s race took a flip for the more severe earlier than he had even set off on the warm-up lap, along with his mechanics discovering a damaged tyre valve whereas checking the pressures earlier than the beginning.
They have been caught on digicam dashing to Michelin to modify its rim, which was shortly fastened, however Marquez stated by directing his focus in the course of the warm-up lap to including temperature to that cool tyre, he inadvertently disengaged his entrance journey top machine.
🚦 @marcmarquez93’s race begin went from unhealthy to worse! 📉
The 8-time World Champ had a difficulty participating the holeshot machine after which he collided with Franky which dropped him to P13 💥#AustrianGP 🇦🇹 pic.twitter.com/yCl7Ik3ojK
— MotoGP™🏁 (@MotoGP) August 18, 2024
This left him sluggish off the road, dropping positions and making contact into Flip 1 with Pramac’s Franco Morbidelli, although each riders escaped unscathed.
Regardless of dropping to thirteenth, Marquez shortly minimize his means again by the sphere, repeatedly diving up the within of the chicane to achieve positions and end the race in fourth, behind solely Pecco Bagnaia, Jorge Martin and Enea Bastianini.
“At present we have been unfortunate,” Marquez summarised.
“Thirty minutes earlier than the beginning, when the mechanics go to test the tyre strain, the valve broke. Then, as you see within the picture, they have been operating to Michelin to vary it from that tyre to a different rim.
“However throughout that process that was tremendous good and so they did an excellent job, however the tyre temperature drops so much. Then, that chaos created the whole lot.
“On the sighting lap I used to be concentrating to place extra temperature on the entrance tyre, then on the final straight I braked and I engaged properly the primary machine, however then I braked once more and it disengaged.
“Then I didn’t have sufficient velocity, so with out that entrance machine it was tough to begin properly.
“I used to be tremendous calm within the first nook and stated I’d brake early to not exaggerate and let’s see, after which I obtain an enormous contact from the left aspect after which we went huge.
“From thirteenth place, we begin step-by-step.”
Morbidelli was dropped from eighth to seventeenth by the Flip 1 incident, however stated it was an “unlucky episode.”
“Marc had a special velocity as a result of he didn’t interact the entrance machine, so after I went to brake, he went on the left possibly to keep away from Jack [Miller], and we bought tangled,” he added after recovering to eighth.
Regardless of struggling along with his entrance journey top machine, Marquez insisted a ban shouldn’t be applied “as a result of I did a mistake, for everyone it’s the identical” however welcomed the upcoming change to the laws from 2027 as “an answer”.
Sunday’s points for Marquez got here after he crashed out of Saturday’s dash race whereas operating second after a penalty for Martin.
Regardless of failing to attain on Saturday and lacking out on the rostrum on Sunday, Marquez stated the Pink Bull Ring weekend was “among the finest” he has had to this point with Gresini.
“In Barcelona we completed second and second within the dash race but it surely was one of many worst weekends for us,” he stated.
“This weekend, it was among the finest – the sensation on the bike, the velocity in follow, in heat up, in qualifying follow – however we have been out with zero factors yesterday and fourth place as we speak.
“However I loved so much this weekend and it’s there.”
Requested about his starvation for victory given the ever-growing time since his final win, he continued: “For me, it doesn’t matter. I do know this 12 months is a 12 months to construct and I’m constructing, I’m making an attempt to construct that confidence, to go step-by-step.
“It’s true that we begin so good and it appears like we do a step again and now it appears like we come again.
“The second a part of the season, we have to maintain constructing, attempt to be on the rostrum and the victory, if it’s not this 12 months, subsequent 12 months it should arrive.”
