San Marino MotoGP GP – Marquez (1st): "One of the best races of my career"
MotoGP title holder Marc Marquez takes the reins of the 2017 provisional classification on equal points with Andrea Dovizioso thanks to a very good victory in the wet at the San Marino GP. MNC declaration and analysis.
Marc Marquez, Honda-Repsol (3rd in qualifying and 1st in race): "It was undoubtedly one of the best races of my career. To be honest, concentration was essential throughout the event, because an error had quickly happened. It is for this reason that I decided to wait until the last moments to attack and this last lap was just amazing. I took risks, but five points can make the difference at the end of such a tight season. ".
- MNC of September 10, 2017 :
- MNC file :
"Of course, I couldn’t stop thinking about the championship (Marquez was 9 points behind the leader before the race, Editor’s note). At the beginning I didn’t feel very comfortable, most likely because there was still a lot of water on the track. I got a few scares and Jorge was really fast. After his crash Danilo recovered his lead, but I was able to follow him to try an attack on the track. end. A big thank you to my team for the work that has been done. I’m happy after our disappointment at Silverstone ".
"We try to be ready for each situation and as it takes a long time to go from a" wet "configuration to a" dry "configuration, I had agreed with my team that I would give them a nod as soon as possible. that the track was drying out, so that they could start preparing the second bike in the event of a flag-to-flag (a sign that it did very early in the race, causing a little wind of panic in the paddoks where everyone was ‘is eager to imitate the HRC, Editor’s note). In the end, we did not have to change bikes, but we were not that far away. This championship is incredible, anything can happen. We are now back in the lead, tied on points with Andrea. The last five races will not be easy, but I will continue to give 100% ".
Site analysis : Unsinkable Marc Marquez! The 24-year-old Spaniard wins his fourth Grand Prix of the season – the 59th of his career – despite several "heats" on the soggy track of Misano and after having tested the asphalt four times during practice! Insufficient to cool the boiling Marquez, for whom touching the limits – and sometimes exceeding them – is necessary.
- MNC Live – San Marino Warm-up GP: Marquez takes the lead in the rain
According to the Honda official, it was his fall in the wet during his last laps of the warm-up that urged him to be careful: "otherwise, I would probably have fallen in the race". The n ° 93 therefore tried to stay calm and keep the wheel of Danilo Petrucci, who took the lead in the race on his Ducati Pramac after the crash of Jorge Lorenzo..
- MNC Live – GP of San Marino :
Faster in places, the HRC rider wisely bided his time to attack, overtaking the Italian at the start of the last lap before setting the fastest lap in the race in 1’47.069, just to make Petrux understand that any attempt at resistance was pointless! Great art expressed on the slippery asphalt of Misano, on which Marquez felt better and better when the trajectory dried up in the second part of the race.
Thanks to this strategy, Marc Marquez erases his frustrating engine failure at Silverstone and returns to equal points (199) with the leader Andrea Dovizioso, third at Misano. Tied for victories this year (4 each), the two men are separated at the top of the standings by their previous rankings, Marquez having signed more second positions than "Dovi" (3 against 1).
Delighted with his performance, Marc Marquez intelligently sums up his calculated risk-taking: "if I had fallen on the last lap, many would have said:" he will never learn from his mistakes, blah blah "… But that’s my style. And it is thanks to this style that I won five titles ". Well said, champion !
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