Marc Marquez turns around an 'uncomfortable' start to the COTA weekend to claim third place by the end of Friday practice.
But successful modifications by the Gresini team plus an understanding of how the Desmosedici needs to be ridden - at a Texan track where he won seven times for Honda - saw the #93 rise to third place on the timesheets.
“We started FP1 riding a bit uncomfortable. Then we were calm, we worked quite hard with the team. I tried to give the information to them, they understood what I needed, we worked in a good way and this afternoon I was riding better. “Still there are 3-4 riders - like always! - a bit faster than us, so let’s see if tomorrow we can be better.”Marquez acknowledged that Saturday morning’s qualifying will be crucial, as he seeks to improve on sixth and eighth on the grid so far this season.
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