Reigning MotoGP World Champion Marc Marquez passed 66° angles of lean at the Qatar MotoGP test but still failed to fall off in a save that Jack Miller described as 'amazing to watch'.
It was another trademark save from the little Spaniard as he found and passed the limits of adhesion on his RC213V. Marquez was two degrees further from upright than his famous Valencia non-crash.
“Following Marc, I watched him lose the front I think six times in the space of two laps. I let him past at turn six, and I think it happened to be one of his biggest ones yet, it went for so long, all the way to the white line on the outside,' said Miller.
“I thought 'he's down, he's down, he's down, he's down' and then he stood it up and kept going again! But I followed him the lap before through the fast three corners, and he lost the front each time.
“It was amazing to watch from behind, there was smoke and stuff coming off him! It looked like he was really struggling... I was having these moments, but I wasn't pushing too much, and he was pushing into it. I mean, even his crash at turn two wasn't like your normal crash at turn two, it was quite late into the corner."
Marquez grinned: "When he was behind me, I checked on the data, I was at 66° of lean angle, so even more than Valencia, but I was able to recover that crash. Of course, when you have that problem, it's not the good way, but in the end, that's my riding style.”