The eight-time world champion has won at COTA seven times since making his MotoGP debut in 2013, making it one of the circuits he has been most successful at in his career.
But all of those wins came on the Honda and Marquez has moved to downplay expectations that he can add an eighth to his tally this weekend on the Gresini Ducati.
Finishing Friday practice third overall, Marquez admits he is having to alter his approach to Texas venue in the way he would normally find lap time on the Honda more than at any circuit he has ridden on the Ducati so far.
“More,” he said when asked if he is having to change anything for such a unique track as COTA.
“I mean, yes, here when one bike is not completely fantastic in all the points and the other is not completely fantastic… it’s impossible to have the perfect bike and it’s impossible to have a bike that is working on all the points.
“The Honda was super good on those stop-and-go corners.
“But the thing is that with the Ducati, you need to ride in a different way and find the time in another way in those corners.
“So, it’s there where I was more concentrated this afternoon, trying to understand that point. I started to understand and since that point, the lap times were coming better and better.”
Source: Autosport