Ducati boss Davide Tardozzi has mocked Marc Marquez for crashing twice in practice for the 2026 Czech Grand Prix, as both incidents occurred when Bruno was pushing his limits.
Marquez He was happy with his mixed start. Czech GP At the weekend, he finished the session in the gravel and set the pace in FP1 in time to secure an automatic Q2 place. His fastest lap of 1:51.988 was enough to take P5.
Seven-time MotoGP champion Marquez practically set the benchmark lap when he became the first rider to break 1:51. But the 33-year-old player could not improve his frame as a track house star in the last minutes Ai Ogura led the practice in Brno with a new all-time lap record.
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David Tardozzi felt Marc Marquez had ‘forced’ his Ducati twice in Brno.
Ogura set a 1:51.735 on his satellite Aprilia RS-GP, obliterating his previous lap of 1:53.303. Marquez tops the FP1 timesheets at the Czech GP.. Marquez’s FP1 marker could have been lower had he not failed to push at Turn 7.
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Ducati team manager Tardozi He believes Marquez’s FP1 crash and early practice crash are similar, as both incidents were caused by him trying to push the front end of the bike beyond its limits. Marquez added a fall to his day on lap 11 when he took a faceoff.
“(It was) just, I can say, stupid mistakes,” Tardozzi said. TNT Sports 2 (19/06, 14:26). He forced a bit, but he lost the front, but nothing happened, but we knew that the opponents would be fast, and this morning (the crash), he was the fastest.
Marquez tried to push through the middle of the 11th lap 10 minutes into the provisional practice session at the Czech GP, but a moment was enough to settle the Ducati GP26 and he took it to the gravel again. The second incident also damaged the left-hand side of the bike.
Marquez pieces Ducati He cleared the gravel trap in Turn 11, but was able to walk away from the crash seemingly unscathed for the second time in a day. As his trademark approach came to the fore, the crashes didn’t put a dent in the Spaniard’s pace.
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Seeing Marquez go twice unscathed is the most important of the accidents for Ducati, considering his recent return from injury. Tardozzi admitted that Marquez’s body is still “not 100% ready” as the 33-year-old needs muscle mass in his right shoulder.
Tardozzi added: “We came in the same position to win both races. But we definitely know we need time on Marc’s side because his body is not 100% ready… I think he will fight for the podium.”
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