Good reappearance of Marc Márquez on the back of the Honda in the Sepang test. Almost four months after riding with her for the last time in the Misano 2 race, the one he won before crashing days later training with the dirt bike near home. He has done 111 laps in two days and has finished eighth, just two tenths from the head, but the most important thing is that he has left behind the vision problems and the shoulder problem has gone from being a pain to a stable annoyance .
-Is it the preseason that you have reached the best in recent years?
-I am in conditions similar to those of 2018 or 2019, because it is true that I feel good now, but I started my physical training two weeks ago. Yesterday I felt good and today, when I shot, too, but at the moment it’s impossible to hold out all day at a constant pace, being fast and shooting. I rode until the end, but in the morning I told the team to stop because I wasn’t riding well anymore. It was better to stop and come back in the afternoon. The bad luck is that it rained in the afternoon, but this is the best training possible, on the bike, and it was the first time I’ve ridden with the new bike.
-Does the Mandalika test for your body come at a bad time?
-The most difficult test was this one, the one in Malaysia. It is a physical circuit, very demanding. It was the most difficult test. Now we have four days to rest and go back to Mandalika to do more laps on the bike. When I shot this morning, the speed was there. It’s true that yesterday I made two small mistakes and today I didn’t want to make them, so I’ve been riding easy and smooth. I want to understand this bike and be fast again, so I’m happy there is another test.
-From the amount of laps he has given, it seems that the physical problems are beginning to be left behind. Is the title the goal again and how motivated are you to reach Rossi’s nine?
-The view is perfect because otherwise I would not have appeared, but it is true that in the shoulder I have noticed a lack of strength and the pain, rather discomfort, has been stable. Logically, we work to fight for this year’s World Cup and the mentality is the same as always, to fight as if it were the first World Cup.
-Two months ago you didn’t expect to be here?
-Being in this test has been a gift, something that at times the doctor came to rule out, but his eyesight got better and he entered 2022 and in two weeks it was fixed. Until the end of the year I saw double and I had not even started riding a bike, but at the beginning of the year everything changed and my progression began and I started riding a bike and a motorcycle, but in just two weeks you cannot recover the work that is done for months.
-What matters most at the moment in MotoGP, the bike or the rider?
-Every time the motorcycle influences more and yes it is true that now there is a lot of mechanical equality between all the brands. There are ten bikes, even more, twelve, that can win the World Championship and that did not happen in the 500. Here it has been seen that the Aprilia, the Ducati or the Honda and the Yamaha with Quartararo seem to fly, but it is true that every time There are more things on the bikes and everything has to be more structured, including the engine, the fuel, the tires and the aerodynamics.
-Is today’s classification strange?
-It is a bit of a reflection of each year in the preseason and there are always two or three riders who can win a World Cup, but the same thing has happened again and eleven or twelve riders have been seen who could win, but in conditions that later you never find them. With a lot of rubber on the track and you do 60 laps in one day, but then the grand prix is different and that’s when you have to position yourself and think about the championship.
-Is it the best Sepang test for Honda?
-It was a good first contact. The bike already had good comments in Jerez by the Honda riders and here, when it has been tightened, the times have come for all the riders. It is positive, but it is not the first year that it has gone well in Sepang and then there are problems. I remember in 2015 we made the track record and then we had problems during the season so you have to be careful, but it looks good.
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