It's a frustrated Alex Marquez to find the back of the peloton after the hopes displayed a week earlier at Misano 2 who was taking stock of his Barcelona Grand Prix. The Honda official likes the Montmélo track, but the latter does not give him this consideration for his first appearance with a MotoGP. The fault, in particular, is a tire allocation from the single manufacturer that some have mocked. Wrongly, if we refer to the little story told by Marc's brother on the subject, and which dates from Austria...
Valentino Rossi declared during this Barcelona Grand Prix played in September due to the revised and corrected schedule due to the pandemic, which Michelin had brought the tires planned for June. Period initially planned for the Catalan meeting. A situation thatAlex Marquez explains, which clears the sole manufacturer of any evaluation error: “ we had the same allowance as usual in summer. Michelin wanted to give us the possibility of a modified selection at Spielberg within the security committee. But the KTM riders were not satisfied with it ».
A bad decision for the front tire
He adds : " but if a driver disagrees, there is no change in allocation. So you have to accept that. So we all had to adapt to it. The selection was not ideal for the conditions here ». KTM is therefore not for nothing in what led to this situation. Alex Marquez took a medium front tire for this event like Pol Espargaro, Miguel Oliveira, Brad Binder et Aleix Espargaró. An option he regretted: “ I made the wrong decision for the front tire. I suffered a lot with the front medium over the entire race distance ».
« But you learn a lot from races like this and it will make me stronger for the future. I learned a lot from this decision. We will have clearer ideas for Le Mans. I expected that I could be closer to the front and not be 17 seconds behind ". A liability that he indeed regrets on the winner fabio quartararo : " Barcelona is a track that I really like and have already had good results on, so I'm not satisfied », Finishes the 2 Moto2019 world champion.
MotoGP Barcelona J3: classification
