The Repsol Honda riders finished seventeenth and eighteenth respectively.
The Repsol Honda Team had a less-than-positive Saturday at Silverstone. On a day affected by wet conditions, Marc Márquez and Joan Mir failed to get through to Q2 in the morning and suffered problems during the Sprint Race, which caused them to finish in the lower reaches of the standings.
Joan Mir started Saturday’s ten-lap race from 19th on the grid. The Repsol Honda team rider tried to progress during the first half of the Sprint Race, but due to problems with the Honda RC213V he crossed the finish line 17th.
Márquez had tried to make it into Q2, but missed out by 0.284s. He began from the fifth row on the grid, in 14th, and experienced similar issues to his teammate, placing 18th.
The ninth round of the season, the British Grand Prix, takes place on Sunday at 13h local time.
MARC MÁRQUEZ – 18th
“A complicated day with the rain and we just didn’t have the feeling with the bike. We used the Sprint to try and understand many things, when I saw that I was out of the points I looked to ride with the other Hondas in order to watch and learn. We finished the race, learned some more things and did not fall. Let’s see what happens tomorrow because it looks like the conditions will be very different. I want to say congratulations to Alex as well, he had a great race and he is in a good moment.”
JOAN MIR – 17th
“It was a very wet day today, that is certain! It stopped raining just before the Sprint and the track was drying out as the race went on – it was a race of two very different parts. It’s difficult in these conditions to manage the grip and it maybe highlighted some of our weaker points more. I didn’t feel super comfortable during the race but it was important to do the laps and keep improving our feeling. It looks like it will be a dry race tomorrow, so hopefully we can improve then. But it was good to be back racing, I was smiling in the first laps.”
