Márquez, to Honda: "For safety we have to improve the electronics"

June 25, 2021

The dynamics of this Friday’s accident in Assen inevitably reminded him of Jerez, in which he broke his right humerus, the starting point of the ordeal that kept him nine months without racing.

On this occasion, the Spaniard was also spat into the air after the rear of his RC213V lost grip and suddenly regained it, without the electronics acting as they theoretically should.

The one from Cervera (Lleida) was lucky to come out practically unharmed, only bruised and with the blow – he flew out at 130 kilometers per hour – spread throughout his body. Already in the afternoon, before the journalists, the Catalan was much more direct than usual, and he justified it by arguing that issues related to the safety of the pilots are not to be played with.

“I never give warnings when the problem is related to the performance of the bike, because in that case I understand that we riders have to wake up. But when it is something directly linked to security, and it may depend on it that you get hurt, then I am more direct. From such a fall you come out unscathed once; the second, probably not”, declared Márquez, who, according to what he said, is putting a lot of pressure on the technicians of the golden wing so that they find the key, and never better said, that prevents this type of accident.

With only four bikes on the track, Honda is, with 38 crashes , the manufacturer that accumulates the most this course. Ducati , despite having two more units (6), has only seen its riders fall on 32 occasions, 11 fewer misfortunes than those suffered by the four KTM riders (21) .

“I’m pushing hard because we can’t have these kinds of accidents. We Honda riders are the only ones who fly away, and if we continue like this, some of us will not finish the season”, continued the multi-champion, who was very precise in his explanations of why, apart from the obvious, it is vital to optimize the operation from electronics : “These falls take away a lot of confidence because you don’t know when you’re going to have another one, and that prevents you from going fast”.

On the problem in question, the #93 commented that it is in a specific type of curves. In this case, he fell on a right-hand drive, in third gear, and with the bike leaning quite a bit.

“We have control in hand. There’s a style of corner where we have to get the traction control to work better, because I didn’t do anything to write home about. I did not expect to fall there, because, in fact, it is the electronics that must prevent that from happening”, agreed Márquez, who, despite having rejoined the championship in Portugal, the third stop on the calendar, has already made 9 drags, five less than Pol Espargaró, the one who has fallen more times so far.