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Márquez: "The real goal is 7th or 8th; better than that would be a gift"

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Sepang.- Marc Márquez never lets up and when, after FP4, everything pointed to the fact that the Honda rider was going to have to start far behind on the grid and with few options to get through Q1, the Spanish rider took two laps out of his hat to move on to Q2 and finish with the third fastest time.

In the first sieve and with the second tire already, Márquez went wide following Jack Miller, who fell, but crossed the finish line just to make a final solo lap that surprisingly lifted him to second place. Once in the final qualifying session, the Honda rider caught Pecco Bagnaia’s wheel, who also fell, which did not prevent the #93, once again alone, from closing a sprint to finish on the front row of the grid.

“I don’t understand anything, because we were where we expected until FP4, but in Q1 and Q2 I managed to do two good laps with the second tyre,” admitted the Catalan in Parc Fermé.

“In the straights we lose a lot and look for wheels, both times they have fallen, first Miller and then Pecco, and I had to do the lap alone, and that is what has surprised me the most,” he added. “Alberto (Puig) said that it is not how it starts, but how it ends and we continue”, says a Márquez who after FP4 seemed absolutely far from being competitive, but who in the classification of the Malaysian Grand Prix has been very strong.

“I don’t know what has changed since FP4, in fact nothing has changed. From the outside they look the same, but we are riding with two completely different bikes, we have to work for 2023, luckily in FP4 I crashed with the one that didn’t I liked it so much and I was able to have the good (bike) for qualifying. I wasn’t expecting much, I wasn’t expecting a 58.4, but tomorrow they will put us in place because we have zero pace,” he warned.

In Australia I didn’t expect much either and, in the end, the Honda rider had an impeccable race, finishing second and fighting for victory until the last breath.

“I don’t know what the realistic goal is for tomorrow looking at today,” he returned to a low profile.

“In Australia I said that the podium was possible and we achieved it, here the top 5 I don’t see it feasible, in the dry if I finish 7th or 8th it would be fine, later than this it would be a gift, and further back it is that they will not have squared the things”, was the forecast of Márquez who insisted that “the most surprising thing is to have achieved the two good laps alone after the crashes of Miller, in Q1, and Pecco, in Q2”, settled.

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