MARC ON TOP FORM, ALEX RIGHT BEHIND
#QatarGP Sprint Race. It has been once of the most intense Saturdays of racing ever (and it’s the first one of the season!) with Practice, qualifying and Sprint race all squeezed together in a few hours. It was not easy to race in these conditions, but Team Gresini MotoGP answered the call in a big way in the morning session, with Alex Marquez topping the timesheets, as well as in qualifying, with Marc Marquez securing a top-five finish (second row) while his younger brother was seventh.
There is still plenty of action left (and work to do) with the opening full race of the season that will get underway at 8pm local time (GMT +3). Marc and Alex will start in sixth and ninth position, respectively, ready to spearhead their attack to the top positions.
5th – MARC MARQUEZ #93
“I had fun, no doubt. I managed to put together some overtaking manoeuvres, also on the straight, I was in the top positions and that’s when you start having fun and the weekends get shorter. I made a mistake when I knew I could, on lap one and then I lost some ground battling with Fabio (Diggia). We are where we want to be, in the top five, and that is the goal for tomorrow as today I was expecting Bastianini a bit further up and Binder not as competitive as he turned out to be.”
7th – ALEX MARQUEZ #73
“Too bad for the Q2, as we weren’t able to put together the perfect lap and we were coming from an excellent practice. Then in the sprint race we lost time at the beginning, especially because of Di Giannantonio: first the battle with Marc and then his crash ended up costing me too much ground. We will need a good start tomorrow and try to manage the tyres as best as we can.”
