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MotoGP Assen: Marquez struggling with feel on new tyres

Assen MotoGP Pole sitter Marc Marquez has admitted that he didn’t feel good with the new tyres today at the Assen MotoGP round but rather ominously followed that up with with when the tyres wear, his feel comes back.

Sitting on pole position and heading a top ten separated by less than four tenths of a second means the race will be close from the off, something Marquez is aware of on a circuit with opportunities to overtake.

“I think tomorrow will be a group race because it’s quite a difficult circuit to lead all the laps,” said the World Champion.

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“We will see during the day with the weather and the amount of wind we have and all these things. Then we will try to choose the correct option with the tyres. The most important thing today was to try to concentrate, like we have all weekend, on the race pace and for the qualifying.

“With the new tyre I didn’t feel good but then when the tyre dropped off, that’s when I fell better.”

There was a strong Northerly wind in Assen today and it was something that all riders, including Marquez, was struggling with.

“The most important thing is the race pace but anyway, the conditions here changed a lot. This morning and especially this afternoon it was so windy and then it was more difficult,” he said.

“The bike was shaking and it was difficult to be constant but qualifying practice was nice because you need to be fast but also smart to understand when you need to push, or the slipstreams especially.”

After doing longer runs through the free practice sessions, Marquez got a feel for all of the three compounds of rear tyre. Despite this he doesn’t know what tyre he will use during the race just yet.

“Yesterday with the hard I was slower but it was also a different set-up of the bike, so we must understand. Today we changed a lot the set-up and it was working much better and the pace was very similar between the hard, soft and medium,” he explained.

“It will be difficult and tomorrow in the warm-up we have the last chance to try the tyres and then decide for the race.”

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