Alex Marquez fourth at Silverstone
Alex Marquez takes fourth place in the British Grand Prix and confirms himself as the reference among Ducati riders at Silverstone. A result that can be read in two ways: in light of Aprilia’s superiority, it is a good placement, but the vice world champion could have also reached the podium without a mistake in turn 1 when he had just overtaken Marco Bezzecchi.
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It is precisely the stoic resistance of Bez that prevents Marquez from reclaiming a P3 that would have at least brought a smile to Ducati’s house. Alex comments on his GP like this.
The words of Alex Marquez
“I think fighting for second place was our potential today, but that mistake cost me two and a half seconds, I had to rebuild the race from scratch. I came back fighting with Marco and in the end I paid a bit with the rear tire“, this is the comment to Sky Sport MotoGP. “I think today we had the potential for the podium, it was a small but painful mistake, because it cost a lot of time“.
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“Yesterday it seemed that the Aprilias would give us 20 seconds, instead we were there, I fought for the podium until the end, so we were closer than everyone expected and we did a great job. On these circuits, we had a bigger gap at the beginning of the year, we must be happy and keep working, we are only missing two or three details“.
The performance of number 73 is particularly important because it comes in a weekend in which the official Ducatis showed huge difficulties. Francesco Bagnaia highlighted the quality of Marquez’s work, which must also be a guide for the official team in this period of crisis, while Fabio Di Giannantonio applauded him for the consistency of race pace in the Sprint.
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