The Honda rider took a bold gamble on the soft rear tyre for last Sunday’s grand prix at Barcelona and ended up as top HRC runner in 13th.
Marquez notes he tried to push in the early stages to see if he could keep pace with the group ahead of him battling for sixth headed by his brother Alex Marquez on the Gresini Ducati.
But he saw “immediately I was over the limits” and elected to simply “survive” the race.
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“Tried to survive. Drive to survive,” Marquez commented on his grand prix.
“I mean, it was a race that I started and immediately I was trying to manage the tyres front and rear.
“So, I tried check the feeling, manage the tyres and saw many riders overtook me.
“Then I decided to push for two, three, four, five laps, behind that second group that was my brother, [Fabio] Quartararo, [Jack] Miller.
“But immediately I saw I was over the limits, over the limit of the bike and then I started to destroy the front tyre too much. So, I decided to just finish the race and get back to my box.”
Source: Autosport