Alex Marquez won the Sprint race today and he believes that the key to his performance was the fluid way he drove the Desmosedici around the track at Sepang, even considering the race to be practically mistake free.
Speaking to the press, the Gresini rider recalled how the race went so smoothly: ‘The race was the perfect situation for me from start to finish. I had a small mistake trying to overtake Pecco at turn 13′, he began, before talking about the battle with Francesco Bagnaia and Jorge Martin:
– It’s difficult, we were always on the limit and you never have a margin when you overtake someone, so I tried to overtake them in corners where I know that if I make a mistake I can let off the brakes and go a bit wide, like in 15 where I tried to overtake Pecco. In that corner I might have been able to go in, brake the bike and go around the inside, but it was too risky for the way it was coming back, so I preferred to go a little straighter. It’s not easy, as I said, I’ve been on the other side fighting for the Moto3 and Moto2 world championships and it’s not good for an outsider to come along and put the brakes on a bit…
As to whether it was precisely in braking that he managed to have an advantage over the others, the youngest of the Marquez clan concluded: ‘Hmm… maybe it could be, but more in flowing to always have speed. Letting it flow and always having speed was key this weekend and it’s something good that we also had in Thailand. Having that speed and everything was the most positive thing today’.