Marc Marquez says he feels \u201cunlucky\u201d to have missed direct progression to Q2 for MotoGP\u2019s Japanese Grand Prix qualifying following confusion over a yellow flag zone.
Marc Marquez says he feels “unlucky” to have missed direct progression to Q2 for MotoGP’s Japanese Grand Prix qualifying following confusion over a yellow flag zone.Honda rider Marquez had set a lap good enough to make the top 10 in Friday afternoon’s second practice session and thus secure a guaranteed spot in the second part of qualifying, but this was scrubbed for a yellow flag violation.
“It was a good day, but unlucky,” summarised Marquez. “Some days I go into Q2 without [having] the speed, but today I had the speed and I was not able to be in Q2. “I thought that my time was a 1m44.0s, and then I arrived on the last lap thinking I had to improve on 1m44.0s, and to improve on that is to ride on the extra-limit.“That’s the reason I crashed, because if I knew that 1m44.2s, 1m44.3s was a good lap [to make Q2] already, I would have approached it in a different way.”
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