{"id":6585,"date":"2025-07-19T19:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T19:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6585\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T19:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T19:14:08","slug":"alex-marquez-battled-with-marc-marquez-tear-off-on-czech-motogp-sprint-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/6585\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Marquez \u201cbattled\u201d with Marc Marquez tear-off on Czech MotoGP Sprint start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The Czech MotoGP Sprint was Alex Marquez\u2019s worst of the season so far, finishing down in 17th.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It was a tough race from the start, with Marquez encountering a tear-off from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/1654\/marc-marquez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Marquez<\/a>\u2019s visor in his grid box when he pulled into position after the warm-up lap.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt\u2019s unclear to me what happened at the start,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/racer\/935450\/alex-marquez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Marquez<\/a> after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MotoGP<\/a> Sprint at Brno.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI \u2018battled\u2019 with a tear-off, and it was Marc\u2019s [Marquez].<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI pushed it away, but the rear still span.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Watching the race back, you can see clearly what Marquez is talking about.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">From the TV feed, you can see Marc Marquez pull a tear-off as he rolls up to his second-place grid box. When the camera changes to the head-on shot of the grid, you can see he was over the box Alex Marquez starts from when he pulled the tear-off.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Looking from Alex Marquez\u2019s on-board, the front-facing camera shows clearly a tear-off in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/motogp\/teams\/gresini-racing-motogp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gresini Racing<\/a> rider\u2019s grid slot as he pulls into it. As he gets closer, you can make out the \u201893\u2019 graphic on the tab of the tear-off.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Watching from the helicopter camera, it\u2019s possible to see Marquez reach down, pick up the tear-off, and throw it away \u2013 it\u2019s clear to see that the tear-off is not in his grid box when he launches.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Speaking to MotoGP.com, Marquez suggested his poor start could also have been due to his rear tyre.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI know that I had a fight with a tear-off on the grid,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI took it out. I don\u2019t know if it was that, or if I just spin. It\u2019s something that I need to check.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAlso, the feeling was no super-fantastic. So, I don\u2019t know if I spin for the tyre or I spin for the tear-off, but, later on, with the rear of the bike I didn\u2019t have a great feeling \u2013 a lot of vibration, a lot of problems.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cSo, we need to check exactly what happened on that, and luckily we have the information from this Sprint race to improve for tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">After the start line difficulties, things continued to be complicated for Marquez in the opening stages as he ran into his teammate, Fermin Aldeguer, at turn three. It was at that point that Marquez settled for data-gathering on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI had a coming together with Fermin [Aldeguer] and that\u2019s when I decided to take it steady in this Sprint, because it was a lost battle,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe got some valuable data ahead of tomorrow and we\u2019re not too far behind on the grid, so we\u2019ll work hard in order to be competitive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Czech MotoGP Sprint was Alex Marquez\u2019s worst of the season so far, finishing down in 17th. 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