Alex Marquez says he might have fought the Aprilias for second within the British Grand Prix had he not made a “silly” and “unacceptable” mistake.
The youthful Marquez once more emerged as Ducati’s prime runner at Silverstone, charging from seventh on the grid within the first a part of the race to knock on the rostrum positions.
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However shortly after clearing the manufacturing unit RS-GP of Marco Bezzecchi for third on lap 9 of 20, the Spaniard suffered a serious scare at Abbey, dropping again to fifth.
Though he was capable of repass Pedro Acosta’s KTM with out breaking a sweat, Bezzecchi had one thing further in reserve for the ultimate levels of the race, forcing Marquez to accept fourth place.
Whereas he completed nearly two seconds away from the next-best Ducati rider, and loved his second-best points-haul of the season, the 30-year-old could not cover his disappointment after the race.
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“Once you lose a podium for a silly mistake…. It was fairly unacceptable on my half as a result of at that second I simply missed the brake level just a little bit,” he stated.
“When you’ve got extra potential and also you see that the rostrum was reasonable, [it hurts].”
With Jorge Martin ending simply seven tenths up on Bezzecchi in third, Marquez believes he might have fought for the best-of-the-rest spot behind lights-to-flag winner Raul Fernandez.
“I feel our probabilities had been for second place,” he stated. “That mistake at Flip 1 after I overtook Marco, at that second, I used to be too optimistic and I braked just a little bit later. I moved with the entrance brake after which I misplaced the rear contact.
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“That value us the rostrum right this moment however anyway we did a very strong race, being quick till the tip, making an attempt till the tip; that was the primary factor.
“I feel Marco performed his card and he saved one thing for the final two laps and he was simply sooner than us in that time, saving loads of rear tyre.”
Regardless of clearly having an edge over different Ducati riders in the course of the weekend, Marquez certified behind each Fabio di Giannantonio and his brother Marc in seventh.
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The Gresini rider believes his low beginning place severely compromised his possibilities of ending on the entrance, after wrapping up the weekend with two fourth-place finishes.
“Right now, what [Aprilia] had greater than me was [an advantage on] the beginning grid. I feel P7 penalised us lots,” he stated. “Now, the group has probabilities once more, to not be with Raul, however to be on the rostrum.”
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