Chicho Lorenzo says Marc Marquez’s penalty at the 2026 Thailand Grand Prix has made him “realise” he can’t overtake his trademark.
The famous horse trainer Lorenzo paid a lot of attention to that body language Marquez showed on Thailand GPIn the wake Ducati Star won the Sprint Race for the KTM rider Pedro Acosta After being dropped in the final round last Saturday.
Márquez was ordered down a place in the first sprint race of 2026 after he made a late move and forced Acosta wide. MotoGP season. The 33-year-old was deemed too late and Acosta forced him to take his bike to prevent it from breaking down.
a lot MotoGP fans disagreed with Marquez’s penalty in the Buriram Sprint.Because his contact with Acosta was only minor – though the KTM rider lifted his bike. Márquez only saw the penalty on the dashboard and gave him his place at the end.
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Marc Marquez’s ‘body language’ in Thailand suggests he knows he can’t bully his rivals into submission.
Lorenzo, father of three-time MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo, believes Marquez’s reaction to the penalty in the sprint race at Buriram may have been more serious than the penalty, as his “body language” always showed how he felt.
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After watching Marquez in Thailand, Lorenzo realized that the penalty had made him realize that the Ducati rider could no longer intimidate his rivals into submission and that his “Hala sign” device was now a thing of the past. Now, Marquez will have to constantly change how he runs.
“Marquez is a strategist who always uses deception or lies for his advantage,” Lorenzo said. Quick and curious. Podcast. But his body language is always so clear.
I realized that it bothered me that he couldn’t do what he always excelled at, something that had been his hallmark since childhood. He is a master at targeting his opponent and forcing him off the line.
But at Buriram this manual was penalized in the first Sprint of the new season. He realized that he couldn’t use that technique that had kept him ahead of the others so many times.
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How Marquez reacts at the first Brazilian Grand Prix of the 2026 MotoGP season on March 20-22 will help prove Lorenzo was right to tip the Ducati pilot.
Marquez could point to the lingering effects of the shoulder injury he suffered at Mandalika last October’s 2025 Indonesian Grand Prix as another reason why he wasn’t as strong as he could have been in the Buriram Sprints, or at the 2026 Thai GP before his suspension.
The 33-year-old underwent surgery on his right hamstring that ruled him out of the final four rounds of the 2025 season. But when he returned to the paddock at the Sepang test in February, Márquez seems to be very weak in Thailand GP He is still trying to get fit.
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