The message Marquez’s race tempo despatched to MotoGP rivals

Marc Marquez accomplished a dash simulation on the ultimate day of MotoGP testing at Sepang, sending out a transparent message to his rivals together with his unbelievable tempo.

Driving the manufacturing unit Ducati throughout the afternoon on Friday, Marquez averaged a time of 1m57.930 over a 10-lap run, comfortably outpacing all the discipline, together with his team-mate Francesco Bagnaia.

Marquez set seven laps within the 1m57s bracket and solely three within the 1m58s, together with his finest time throughout that stint being 1m57.641s and the slowest being 1m58.272s. With that velocity and consistency, he would have simply overwhelmed Jorge Martin to victory in final 12 months’s dash race on the Malaysian Grand Prix.

Apparently, Marquez’s youthful brother and Gresini rider Alex was the closest to him on long-term tempo. Having already set the outright tempo on Friday, Alex Marquez clocked three laps within the mid-1m57s, going quicker than the six-time MotoGP champion on every event, however greater than half of his 10 laps had been within the 1m58s bracket.

Bagnaia’s tempo was within the 1m58s, with the double champion solely dipping into the 1m57s twice in his race simulation.

Here is how Marquez’s long-run tempo within the Sepang check compares with that of Martin within the dash race on the similar monitor in 2024. For added context, Marquez’s lap instances from the identical Sepang dash race have additionally been added. He completed second on that event, 9 tenths behind Martin.

Marquez accomplished a complete of 70 laps on Friday, essentially the most of any rider throughout the day, and even beat rookie Somkiat Chantra’s tally of 68 from Thursday.

In these 70 laps, the place he lined somewhat over 388 kilometres, Marquez posted a finest time of 1m57.042s, which put him fifth and simply behind the VR46 Ducati of Franco Morbidelli, who lapped the circuit simply fractionally faster in 1m56.948s.

In the course of the day, Marquez accomplished the stated 70 laps over 13 runs. Throughout his fifth run, the Spaniard put the bike in time assault mode and posted two speedy laps – 1m57.086s and 1m57.042s.

Later within the afternoon, in his tenth run, he accomplished his race simulation with ten quick laps in excessive 1m57s and low 58s.

To complete the check, Marquez made three extra outings, with two laps within the first and three within the different two.

Marquez had beforehand accomplished 54 laps on Wednesday and one other 45 on Thursday till his late crash at Flip 9. Over the course of the check, he accomplished a complete of 169 laps across the Sepang circuit, which provides as much as 939km.

Marquez additionally received to check for the manufacturing unit Ducati team on the Barcelona check in November, the place he racked up 49 laps on a prototype bike.

Thus, the 31-year-old has now amassed 1,166 kilometres of mileage as an official Ducati rider.

Images from Sepang Take a look at – Day 3