Gresini rider Marquez made a comparatively sluggish launch from pole position to drop to 3rd initially, however repassed each KTM’s Brad Binder and Pramac Ducati ace Jorge Martin to retake the lead on lap seven.
By the beginning of lap 9, Marquez had pulled himself away from the chasing pack and was seemingly on his approach to a primary victory of 2024, solely to undergo a fall on the Flip 9 left-hander.
The Spanish rider was capable of hop again on his bike and get well to seventh, as quite a few different frontrunners crashed out from what turned out to be a race of attrition. He was elevated to sixth following post-race penalties.
Requested if he’s now nearer than ever to a maiden victory on the Desmosedici, having said on Friday that he has now completed his adaptation from the Honda RC213V, the six-time MotoGP champion mentioned: “Nearer than Austin however nonetheless not sufficient. Simply 4 laps and we did not end that 4 laps to complete the right day.
“However the good factor is that for me immediately is a brilliant good day, pole place. We perceive that in moist situations we’re quick.
“Then in the primary [sprint] race we have been the quickest there however sadly I wasn’t capable of end the race. I did essentially the most troublesome factor [of taking the lead], however then I crashed within the best a part of the race.
“However like a lot of the riders I might say I take a moist patch and I lose the entrance. So most of them however the good factor is that each time we’re nearer and nearer.”
Saturday’s dash at Jerez was an unusually dramatic race as greater than half the sphere suffered main crashes, with arguably essentially the most weird incident happening moments earlier than Marquez’s fall as his youthful brother Alex Marquez, Enea Bastianini and Binder all slipped off their bikes in tandem into Flip 5.
Marc Marquez, Gresini Racing
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Though there was no official assertion from FIM, MotoGP or Jerez, quite a few riders reported that water from an earlier rain bathe had seeped its manner onto the asphalt, although it wasn’t clearly seen within the TV footage.
Marquez defined that he by no means noticed the moist patch that led to his crash at Flip 9, however he was conservative on the entry to the nook on that specific lap.
“I did not realise that [it] was that moist patch throughout all of the race,” he mentioned.
“I noticed that there have been some moist patches within the entry however on gasoline I did not see that moist patch.
“After which, in truth, that lap I braked a bit earlier and I saved a bit extra nook velocity however possibly I solely went 10cm [wide] as a result of [at] worst [it was a] 20cm patch.
“I went 10cm out or in, I do not know. I do not know if I used to be passing that patch within the earlier laps in or out as a result of I used to be not overriding.
“Sadly after I misplaced the entrance I wasn’t capable of get well, however even like this we completed seventh within the race so good.”
The Jerez dash marked the second consecutive race through which Marquez crashed from the lead, having additionally lost a potential victory in the Americas GP earlier this month.
Marc Marquez, Gresini Racing
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He additionally retired from the Portuguese GP after an incident with reigning champion and factory Ducati rider Francesco Bagnaia.
However the 31-year-old is not involved about his current run of incidents, as he feels quick on the Ducati since he turned up the wick within the US spherical.
“I perceive since Austin [that] I am robust sufficient concerning the psychological facet,” he mentioned.
“First two races [of the year] I used to be fixed and I attempted to regulate the state of affairs. Since Austin we improve one step the chance and you then expose the bounds after which you may crash. I perceive that.
“Yeah, folks can speak rather a lot. I’ve my plan, I do know what I am doing and I am completely satisfied as a result of I am quick. This was my most important fear this season. So for the time being I am quick.
“In fact, I have to work on the consistency however the good factor is that every one the crashes I had on the race in Portimao, Austin and right here it was not [due] to over-riding [the bike]. It was all the time the additional situations.”