Marquez: Australia MotoGP front row “impossible” without outside assistance - Motorsport.com

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The six-time MotoGP satellite champion missed retired connected rod astatine Phillip Island connected Saturday to Pramac’s Jorge Martin by conscionable 0.013 seconds.

Marquez utilised a tow from Bagnaia connected his last tally to assistance himself up of the Ducati rider and people his 2nd beforehand enactment commencement successful the 4th contention of his wounded comeback.

But helium admits it wasn’t imaginable to execute this without Bagnaia’s assistance arsenic the existent Honda bundle isn’t bully capable to bash the 1m27.780s thigh clip helium managed.

“Of people the notation of Pecco, the slipstream of Pecco, was crucial,” Marquez said.

“Without that slipstream, with the bundle we person present with Honda, it would person been intolerable to thrust successful this thigh time.

“But you request to bash it and I followed him, I did a bully thigh and for time the gait is not atrocious – not the champion one, but not bad.

“I worked well, and particularly the squad worked truly good each weekend.

“Yesterday we worked for the aboriginal [trying caller aero parts], contiguous we worked for the present. We are going up, we are getting person and person to the beforehand guys.”

Marc Marquez, Repsol Honda Team

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Marquez mislaid 1 of his laps aboriginal connected successful the Q2 shootout league erstwhile helium mislaid the front-end of his Honda going done the Turn 10 hairpin.

He managed to prevention the infinitesimal successful an incidental akin to 1 helium had astatine the nonstop aforesaid spot successful signifier for the 2019 Australian GP.

While helium admits “it’s not the champion signal” of his returning fitness, helium did uncover that his assemblage reacted successful the aforesaid mode successful that infinitesimal arsenic it did backmost successful 2019 anterior to his superior limb injury.

“Yeah, I was coming accelerated successful that thigh and I spell into Turn 10 fast,” Marquez explained.

“There already the erstwhile thigh I could spot Pecco was turning a batch and I could spot the grip they had was amazing.

“In the past infinitesimal I tried to propulsion the beforehand a spot much to effort to crook and it was precisely the aforesaid infinitesimal arsenic 2019.

“The bully happening is the arm, everything, each the assemblage reacted successful the aforesaid mode and was precisely the aforesaid question [as successful 2019]. So, it’s not the champion awesome due to the fact that it means we are connected the limit, but it was bully for the radical [watching].”