Marc Marquez admitted that taking until round 10 to score his first Sunday points of the MotoGP season, ‘looks like a joke’.
Marquez made steady progress from 18th on the grid on Sunday, finishing as the top Honda but 23 seconds behind race winner Francesco Bagnaia .
“Of course, I'm not happy to finish 23 seconds behind the first guy. We cannot be happy and it's not my mentality. But in the end, we need to approach the races in a different way,” he said.“I was trying not to make any mistakes and do the race distances.
Austria was Marquez’s first weekend with the new high downforce Honda aero but the RCVs rear grip issues continued and he tried major set-up changes right up until the race. “We tried many, many things during this weekend. Every run was a different bike. Like this morning was a massive change and for that reason, I was last in the warm up, but we understood that was not the direction,” Marquez explained.
“Then for the main race was a small change, a bit better, but in the opposite direction than warm up. So step by step we are trying to analyse because with this new aero also the bike is completely different.”
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