Marc Marquez says it would have been 'impossible' to qualify on the front row for the AustralianGP had he not got a tow from Francesco Bagnaia. MotoGP
The six-time MotoGP world champion missed out on pole at Phillip Island on Saturday to Pramac’sMarquez utilised a tow from Bagnaia on his final run to lift himself ahead of the Ducati rider and score his second front row start in the fourth race of his injury comeback.
“But you need to do it and I followed him, I did a good lap and for tomorrow the pace is not bad – not the best one, but not bad.“Yesterday we worked for the future [trying new aero parts], today we worked for the present. We are going up, we are getting closer and closer to the front guys.”Marquez lost one of his laps early on in the Q2 shootout session when he lost the front-end of his Honda going through the Turn 10 hairpin.
While he admits “it’s not the best signal” of his returning fitness, he did reveal that his body reacted in the same way in that moment as it did back in 2019 prior to his serious arm injury.“There already the previous lap I could see Pecco was turning a lot and I could see the grip they had was amazing.
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