The Qatar circuit is definitely one that isn’t the most friendly for Marc Márquez but he showed a good potential in there at the first time he got to ride with Ducati, and for Neil Hodgson the rider still didn’t seem to put everything together in there, but in the Portuguese GP can be important to understand where he sits, he believes.The former rider, who spend most time of his career at WSBK, despite two seasons in the 500cc (just two rounds in 1994, a full year in 1995), and one at MotoGP (2004), spoke with TNT Sports about the race in Losail, saying: ‘Yes. He’s back! It’s a track he doesn’t like. For me, he still isn’t comfortable and hasn’t found a setting that he likes’.“He had to work hard and make some overtakes,” Laverty said on TNT Sports. “This one into the last corner, into the hairpin on Jack Miller. He made a mistake that allowed Marc up the inside.He had pace; going forward and at various points in the race, he was the fastest man on the track, and then it was the mistake where he drifted out in Turn 13, went onto the red paint, and allowed Aleix Espargaro to get past.At that point, Aleix was the fastest guy. Marc struggled to match the Aprilia in terms of grip. It was typical Marc; it was fighting, it was moving, and making those overtakes and moving forward in the pack.”Sylvain Guintoli, the 2014 FIM World Superbike champion, agreed that it was Marquez’s mistakes that let the Spaniard down as he was passed by his compatriot Espargaro, who had the best speed in the dying embers of the 11-lap race.Guintoli said: “[Making mistakes really bites you], and it opens the door to the pack because there is a narrow racing line here.t’s full of dust – being in the middle of the desert – as soon as you go offline, it’s very slippy and you have to pick the bike up a bit, so you’re letting people through.“Marc had a very aggressive start in the first few laps. He was able to do those moves; you could see that he was comfortable in the breaking zone.“He’s got that advantage; that edge on the other guys. He overcooked his tyres a little.
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