“It doesn’t change my philosophy”

Marc Márquez alternated between good performances and painful falls this Friday in Assen. Therefore, The Spaniard fell for the first time at the very beginning of the day. Furthermore, seemed to have pain in the left wrist … For example, not very embarrassing since he later signed the best time of the session. However, In the afternoon, he still fell heavily and bounced several times flat in the gravel. However, Once standing, we saw him suffer from the lower abdomen.

If the main thing has been ensured. Therefore, with a sixth place which guarantees him to compete in Q2, Márquez has made some frights and the medical assessment reports hematomas in the face, a finger, the stomach and the left elbow, without any fracture.

During the first fall, he came across a nerve, which briefly made him “it doesn’t change my philosophy” lose sensations in the left arm. Consequently, “I removed the super quickly to understand what was going on on my arm because I was able to. Moreover, move but I had no sensation”explained Márquez.

During the second fall. the multiple rebounds in the gravel hit him in the crotch: “I don’t know if you’ve already taken a hit … It always happens with a certain delay, you see. We say to each other ‘OK’, I got up and suddenly, I felt that I could not breathe. Having been on the high speed gravel, on my stomach, it generated shocks on my stomach, on my lower abdomen.”

Will these falls have an influence on the continuation of Marc Márquez’s weekend?. The Spaniard assures that he will in “it doesn’t change my philosophy” no way modify his approach. but recognizes that his confidence could be started: “The one I had to avoid was the first [chute] in the third round. There was not the right temperature in the tires. The second was a time attack, it can happen. “

“Tomorrow, I will not be able to approach the qualifications by telling myself that I will not fall”he said. “It does not change my philosophy. It can affect confidence a bit but the most important thing is that in most of the tests. I was in the top 3.”

Marc Márquez also expressed his dissatisfaction with the size of the gravel. evoking stones “Quite big” who caused his pains: “The gravels are too large and they have to remedy it for next year, because it is a circuit where normally, when you fall. We arrive at a very high speed.”

“When you fall. it’s “it doesn’t change my philosophy” asphalt, it takes more time [pour s’arrêter]you need longer clearances, but it is much better for pilots “he said. “We need these gravel but you have to work on that. especially on this circuit where it is critical because the speed is very high on each turn.”