Marc Márquez didn’t have an easy Friday at Phillip Island. The Repsol Honda rider suffered two crashes, one in each practice session, and finished with the 16th fastest time in the second session, relegating him to the first phase of qualifying.
The six-time world champion in the premier class stated: ‘I didn’t have confidence and then that early crash, especially in the FP1, doesn’t helps. And then just I was calm. It’s true I had an anedotical moment in the same corner, that we can say was a half crash. But apart of that it was a good day’.
According to Márquez, the lack of condidence was a limitation this Friday, in particular in the fast corners: ‘Basically it’s like less confidence. I don’t have a lot of confidence, and then faster corners. In the faster corner I’m not pushing, I’m just cruising. I just push in the slow corners and it’s there where I crash. But I know that it’s safe, so I don’t feel the fast corners’.