The Honda rider endured a bruising Saturday at the Sachsenring having crashed three times in qualifying on his way to seventh on the grid.
Briefly running fifth in the sprint, Marquez faded to 11th at the chequered flag to end a MotoGP contest of any kind at the Sachsenring without a win for the first time ever.
Marquez says after qualifying that he saw “the balance was not enough” to justify the risks for poor results, and after several early moments in the sprint he elected to back off to just get to the finish.
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Asked if the Germany sprint was just about seeing the chequered flag, Marquez said: “Yeah, basically yes. It’s true that today I got up and we are in Sachsenring, my energy is positive.
“On wet conditions, as normal we are fast and I was there. But as soon as we have a dry track we are struggling a lot.
“In that [mixed] situation in the qualifying practice, I was pushing and crashing and coming back into the box and pushing again.
“But then when I was sat in my office between the qualifying practice and the sprint race, the balance was not enough [to justify the risk].
“All that risk for a seventh position was not enough for me. I went into the race optimistic, on the first lap I attacked.
“But already on the first lap attacking [I had] one warning at Turn 11, one warning at Turn 1. And then in that case you close [the throttle] a bit and finish the race."
Source: Autosport