Competition already trembling. Return Marc Marquez v MotoGP after almost nine months, he could hardly have done better on Friday than he had. He's in his first free practice Sleep on a still slightly wet track he set a very good time at the beginning, led for a long time and finally occupied third place. In the second free practice in the afternoon, he qualified for the dry track sixth place and thus also to the lead group.
Marquez in the daily total, it is less than half a second behind the fastest time set by the factory team driver Ducati, Francesco Bagnaia. More importantly, the Spaniard immediately after a long break feels at home again, though he seemed to have run out of energy in the afternoon.
“The last lap was a bit crazy. I didn't like it, but I got along well, ” he laughs Marquez, which summarized the events on Friday as follows: “It was a wonderful day. Although I was not in the best condition in the morning, I immediately had a good feeling on the motorcycle. I ran out of energy a bit in the afternoon, but all in all it is much better than we imagined. In fact, I still don't understand why I did so well. "