Michael Laverty admits Marc Marquez took too big a risk ahead of his crash in qualifying for the Brazilian Grand Prix. Marquez will start on the front row but may have cost himself with his mistake.
The Spaniard set his best time on the first lap, and even that was enough to put him within a tenth of Fabio Di Gianntonio’s final mark. Then he went down on turn four and had to go back Ducati Garage.
Marquez Since the 2024 season, his longest run in Gresini’s last six weekends riding a one-year-old bike is now without a pole position. He looks close to his best this weekend, physically at least, after showing obvious signs of discomfort in Thailand – a legacy of a shoulder injury last autumn.
Marc Marquez crash in Brazil GP qualifying
Will the tight field force Mark into more mistakes this year?
Neil Hodgson and Michael Laverty agree on Marc Marquez’s Brazil disaster.
Speaking TNT Sports Immediately after the crash, Neil Hodgson Marquez demanded a lot from his Ducati bike. The district of Goiania remained treacherous throughout the weekend.
“He’s asking too much then,” said Hodgson. “He knows the feeling, the feeling on a normal, dirt track. You can’t get rid of it here, especially in that corner.”
After the session, Hodgson’s colleague Michael Laverty He agreed that he should have listened to the warnings from other drivers. Turn four had already caught up with many riders on Saturday, including KTM’s Pedro Acosta a few minutes earlier.
Full Q2 results in Brazil
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“When you look back at him he was taking a few liberties, everyone tipped in advance on the way to the corner.
“Because that’s the late end, you come in with an angle, you still come in with the front brake. He’s probably on the back brake as well. He’s taken liberties, but he wants a pole.”
Marquez has a good track record in new circuits. – Goiania is new to all the current riders – and he puts that down to his historic ‘reckless’ approach. Maybe that bit him to a degree here.
What does Marc Marquez say about the Q2 disaster?
In an interview with the British broadcaster at Parc Ferme, Marquez put the fault down to a lack of ‘reference’ points. Both of Friday’s sessions were interrupted by weather, so FP2, immediately before qualifying, was the first true representative.
In Spain’s defence, the crash count reached double figures throughout the sessions, reflecting the intense challenge the drivers faced.
“The first time we went in the dry it was an attack, that was only 30 minutes. We didn’t know the braking points very well.
Although we wanted to set up the electronics a little better, we saw a lot of crashes because we knew where the reference was.
Elsewhere at Ducati, Marquez’s factory team-mate Francesco Bagnaia finished 11th, another disappointing result for the Italian. Gresini duo Fermin Aldeguerre and Alex Marquez started on the third row, while Franco Morbidelli missed out on the Q2 points.
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