Marco Bezzecchi<\/a> led for most of Sunday\u2019s French Grand Prix, but was ultimately overhauled by Martin in the closing stages.<\/p>\nThe Italian admits he \u201cnever felt good\u201d at any point of the Le Mans weekend and lacked confidence on the front-end of his RS-GP.<\/p>\n
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\u201cJorge, since Friday, felt immediately good with the bike, and he never really complained too much,\u201d Bezzecchi said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was always stronger and stronger day by day without making any particular things on the bike.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, it was a kind of weekend that you could see from the outside that he was feeling good, and I tried to improve during the weekend, but I was the opposite from Jorge.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never felt good; even when I was improving, I never got the confidence on the front that I wanted, and this made me use a lot the tyre to compensate.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe result is that in the last seven, eight laps, I was dropping the pace, and it was not enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Bezzecchi added that he \u201cdidn\u2019t expect to lead\u201d for as long as he did, and ultimately didn\u2019t put up a fight with Martin as he felt he was going to get through anyway.<\/p>\n
\u201cVery, very happy with the result, because it wasn\u2019t an easy race,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was super long, very difficult. When I started, and I was in front, honestly, I expected to be passed pretty soon because I knew my pace was not the best.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t expect to lead for so many laps, but at the end, when I felt the opportunity, I tried to give my all to make a good pace, the maximum that I had, and when I saw Jorge passing Pedro [Acosta] I knew he was super strong, especially at the end of the race.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I also felt worse and worse lap by lap.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI knew he was coming, I didn\u2019t want to risk too much to force and maybe just get passed one lap later.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I gave my all, I\u2019m very satisfied. From a tough weekend, we go away from a very good sprint and a very good GP.\u201d<\/p>\n
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