MotoGP Indonesia J3 Alex Marquez (Honda/13): "we had the same problems with the bike in the wet as in the dry"

Alex Marquez managed to bring back a few points from an Indonesian Grand Prix which was experienced as an ordeal, as for the entire Honda clan. The only manufacturer in the category that is Michelin has not made many friends in Mandalika among the HRC staff. Team manager Alberto Puig would also like to have a little discussion with the bibendum about these tires dating from 2018 brought in at the last minute. However, for Alex Marquez, what he suffered in the dry continued in the rain.

Alex Marquez scored his first points of the season in the race on the wet track of Lombok, but he only gets marginal satisfaction from it. Because it is disappointment that dominates for a helpless LCR driver on the Mandalika track. The race weekend in Indonesia was difficult for the pilots Honda, with the highlight of the package of Marc Marquez after a fourth and very violent fall of the weekend.

18th on the grid, the Castrol Honda LCR driver Alex Marquez started from afar for a race which was shortened to 20 laps in order to preserve the Indonesian bitumen which was starting to fall apart. When it started to rain, the pilot of 25 years old felt hopeful. Until then, in fact, the pilots Honda had struggled during the previous days, living in dry conditions. “ Until now we had only tested the bike in mixed conditions, but never really in the wet. I had good feelings in the wet FP3, but the track was already drying ».

**Alex Marquez: “ I was faster than the guys in front of me, but I couldn't pass them«**

But the rain brought nothing better: “ I was a little disappointed when I realized that we had the same problems with the bike in the wet as in the dry. Furthermore, it was almost impossible to overtake others. I was faster than the guys in front of me, but I couldn't pass them ". We will remember thatAleix Espargaro said he was hit from behind by the cadet of Marquez who makes no mention of this incident in his race report.

While his teammate Takaaki Nakagami was stuck in 19th place, Alex Marquez obtained the first championship points of the season with 13th position. At the finish, the 2 Moto2019 World Champion was only two tenths of a second behind the best-placed Honda rider, Pol Espargaro. See you now in Argentina, at the beginning of April.