Taking advantage of the good weather of the south of Spain, Marc Márquez continued today his quick adaptation to Moto2 at the Jerez circuit. The Repsol rider had a productive session in which he was able to reduce in nearly half second the pole position time of the last Grand Prix, set by the late Shoya Tomizawa.
After his cautious start in November at this track, Marc Márquez returned today to the Jerez circuit to continue with his intense preseason that will allow him to face the class change with a good performance level. Taking advantage of the excellent weather, Marquez went out to the track at about 11am with an air temperature of 16ºC and an asphalt temperature of 20ºC.
In the morning, the Repsol rider completed 38 laps, continuing with the tests he started in Valencia, which he could not follow in Estoril due to bad weather. With the attention to detail that characterized all previous tests, Márquez and his team focused on trying different set-ups for his Moto2, in order to analyze all different solutions.
In the afternoon, with the temperature over 20ºC and the asphalt temperature up to 30ºC, the Repsol rider completed another 21 laps. Márquez signed at the end of the day a fastest time of 1 minute, 43 seconds and 9 tenths, a time 4 tenths faster than the best lap set up to now in Moto2 (1 minute, 44 seconds and 372 thousandths), achieved by Shoya Tomizawa in the practice session before the last Jerez Grand Prix.
Tomorrow, Marquez will start the second of the three test scheduled in Jerez, in which he will keep gathering kilometres before the start of the season next March 20 in Qatar.
Marc Márquez 1’43.9 sec, 59 laps, 261 km.
“We did a good job during the whole day. I think we are on the right path and I must thank all the members of the team for the great work done up to now. Today we tried different configurations of the Suter’s set-up and in the end we achieved to gather a lot of data that will allow us to continue evolving it. In the morning the track was a bit slippery, but in the afternoon the conditions improved. Tomorrow we have still a lot of work to do with just one aim: keep on gathering kilometres”.
