“It’s been a long time since I can attack for the last time.”

Marc Marquez Having finished fourth at the Japanese Grand Prix in Motegi, he is confident that ‘this weekend’ left a very good taste in his mouth. It was much better than Aragon, which went well, and the fastest lap in qualifying was also good. He was 13th, but he went out alone and did little by little what he couldn’t do before, and there’s still some left.”

“The feeling of the weekend was very good. It is true that you have to be realistic and if it had been a completely dry weekend for all the sessions the position would have been earlier, not this. But they were the same conditions for everyone, we knew how to adapt well and, above all, in the race it was consistent from start to finish without inventing, ” recalled Márquez.

motorcycle technical problem

“On the first lap, when I saw that we had a problem that could be solved by changing the map, and I was fifth, I said, well, we didn’t invent. If you were there, maybe you would have tried to push a little harder, but you’ve seen how difficult it was to overtake, how difficult it was to get close to Oliveira, it made the whole race run, it was long. “Since I was last able to do so, they have attacked me all the time,” continued the Repsol rider.

recovery

“It’s a long road. From Aragon to here I haven’t noticed practically any improvement, and if it does, I don’t recognize it. It hurts, touches unconsciously.” ”

“At the press conference yesterday, I touched a little, stretched, rotated my arm. It’s not just the muscle. There’s a nerve in that stretch, and when the muscle contracts again…the doctor told me , it’s the whole process,” he explained.

surprised by the end of his career

“I didn’t expect to finish so well. I thought I could finish well in Aragon, but I didn’t expect to finish so well here and I didn’t think I could attack on the last lap. My left arm turned to stone and certainly somehow my left arm made up for it, but my right arm was well done and most of all, I felt pain reaching my head, not even adrenaline feeding. not.”

overtake Oliveira

“On the first lap, if I had been rolling more, I would have passed Binder at that point, but I crashed in the warm-up for that corner. On the first lap, I wasn’t comfortable, so I didn’t want to invent it.” I was having problems with it, but I gained confidence and feeling during the race and I was able to take a two-point lead.”

“The safest thing was, I don’t know how the overtaking on other bikes was done, but with these bikes you have to be aggressive to overtake otherwise you’re going to lose the curve. Braking for a long period of time is almost impossible because it becomes so easy,” if you lose the corner radius, it will overtake you again on the exit, “explained the Repsol Honda rider.