Marc Marquez admits his Le Mans weekend was ‘saved’ by great starts in the sprint and grand prix.
Although he didn’t gain as many positions on lap oneness he did in the sprint, Marquez was up to eighth come the end of lap one.Marquez then picked off the riders ahead of him one-by-one, before joining Jorge Martin and Francesco Bagnaia in the fight for victory.
“I knew the pace was there so I was trying to slowly overtake the other riders and when I was in that third place ; we lost some time with Diggia, but then I said third place is okay. Marquez added: “Today was a good start and I recovered some positions but in turn one, two and three I didn’t find the correct line.“Then, when I arrived at them - even when I was behind Bastianini I could see that they had really good acceleration on the exit of turn eight.
While his comeback performances were brilliant, Marquez did conclude that such results from low down on the grid are not maintainable. “Then we came back but it was too late on Saturday. Then changing the electronics set-up. The sprint race was the first time I felt good with the bike.
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