Alex Marquez: “Sunday will be a different story”

Regardless of trailing his brother Marc Marquez dwelling for a 3rd successive race in Saturday’s MotoGP dash, Alex Marquez doesn’t consider the Argentina Grand Prix on Sunday essentially has to observe the identical script.

The Gresini Racing Ducati rider maintains his manufacturing facility Ducati sibling needed to work more durable for the dash victory at Termas de Rio Hondo than he did for his two wins on the season-opener in Thailand.

Whereas suspicions have been raised after Marc Marquez eased off to drop behind his brother in an effort to protect his tyre strain in Thailand, solely to ease to victory, Alex has maintained all weekend in Argentina that he’s now nearer to Marc by way of true efficiency.

He caught to that line following his second place within the dash, and doesn’t consider he’s robotically condemned to observe his brother dwelling as soon as extra on Sunday.

“I believe it is going to be a unique story tomorrow,” Alex Marquez mentioned. “I don’t assume it’ll change your race very a lot whether or not you go to the delicate or the medium rear tyre, so it’s about altering your strategy to the race and the factors at which you’ll assault.

“Now after the dash we now have extra info and it is going to be a bit clearer what we have to attempt tomorrow morning.”

Though Marc led all the way in which from pole place and set quickest lap, the 0.903s margin of victory was as massive a lead as he had all race. Whereas it was a possibility for Alex to observe Marc’s strategies intently, it additionally gave him hope for the grand prix.

“It’s good to be this shut, like a relentless masterclass over 12 laps,” mentioned Alex after the race. “Each nook, you’re studying one thing new from him.

“However I noticed he was extra on the restrict in comparison with Thailand. As a result of in Thailand, when he overtook us, it was like ‘ciao!’ However right here he was extra on the restrict and struggling a bit bit extra.”

Regardless of the optimism, Alex admitted that he had misplaced to the higher rider on Saturday.

“I used to be not at any second shut sufficient to have the ability to assault him…he was quick into Flip 2 and Flip 5 however I used to be recovering into Flip 3 and Flip 6,” Alex added.

“In a while, he was barely sooner in Flip 7 and Flip 8. So it was not sufficient. The tempo was too excessive to attempt to overtake him, and he didn’t make any massive mistake.”