MotoGP rookie Marc Marquez maintained his 100 per cent podium record with third yesterday at the Le Mans round despite getting an appalling start and running off track at the Dunlop chicane - the place he crashed in final free practice.
The Repsol Honda man managed to gather himself and started a charge from the middle of the top ten, hauling himself to the rear wheel of Andrea Dovizioso at the rate of a second a lap before going past the Italian for third.
“This podium almost counts as a win as it was my first wet race in MotoGP and I wasn’t expecting to finish in the top three. Also, bearing in mind that I had dropped quite far back from the front, third place and 16 points is an important achievement for the World Championship," said Marquez.
"We can say that this was a very good weekend; we had a good setting for the dry, but when it rained it was up to me to learn from the mistakes that I made at the start of the race. I need to improve, because I was finding it hard to ride with water on the track. It will be difficult to maintain our performance at Mugello, but we will go there and try 100 per cent."
