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MotoGP Silverstone: Marquez 'too aggressive' in first practice

MotoGP World Champion and runaway series leader Marc Marquez has admitted he was too aggressive during this morning’s chilly FP1 session at Silverstone.

The Spaniard lost the front end of his Honda RC213V and despite nearly pulling off a trademark save, Marquez found himself, tenth fastest overall over a second and a half off of Maverick Vinales’ fastest time of the morning.

After recent weekends without crashes, Marquez admitted he was too aggressive for the cold track temperatures.

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“It was so difficult to understand in FP1 because like I said everybody expected the new asphalt to give us a good track and it was a disaster. It was worse than last year, better grip but many bumps,” said the 25-year-old.

“In FP1 I ride too aggressive but also the bike was shaking a lot but then the front tyre was also not a good tyre for me so everything was going the wrong way, even the electronics was out.

Marquez was quick to praise the work of hid Repsol Honda for the work done between FP1 and FP2 and the modifications they made allowing him to recover to fourth position in the afternoon session.

“But then for FP2 the team worked a lot to give me another kind of set-up, another kind of electronics and I changed my riding style,” he said.

“All this means we improved the pace by one second and we were very close to Maverick and Dovi that are, at the moment, the fastest ones but we are there very close and this is the most important thing because in a difficult situation you need to react.”

Marquez said that if it wasn’t for the natural grass on the outside of the circuit at Brooklands, he thinks he would’ve been able to save another, quite frankly absurd moment.

“I arrived there with big bumps there and I already had chatter so then I lost the front. But I started to try to save it,” said Marquez.

“When I saw that natural grass was there, I didn’t expect natural grass, because we always try to remove it but it was there and I lost it when I went into it.”

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