Marquez: “Now We Lost the Option For The World Championship”

Marc Marquez arrived at the British Grand Prix with a 52 point gap to the leaders in the championship battle, but was confident that he would be able to fight at the front over the course of the weekend.

The Spaniard was setting a very strong pace throughout practice, his race pace in FP4 being blindingly quick; he was the only rider circulating consistently in the 2:02s. Having set the fastest ever lap at Silverstone in qualifying of 2:00.2 to claim pole on Saturday, it was looking as if the Honda rider was going to streak clear of the rest during the race.

Marc was embroiled in a scrap with Valentino Rossi for the opening half of the race, the pair circulating almost identically. With Lorenzo in 5th, he knew that this was his best chance to take a big chunk of points out of his compatriot in the standings. But Marquez' 2015 title ambitions came to an end when he crashed at turn one on lap twelve, the rear locking up under braking being the cause.

But the Spaniard is still out to win as many races as possible in the final six races of the season, and intends to ride to the maximum as usual.

“Today, we knew it would be difficult day. I felt ready, but in the conditions there is always question marks. I was very concentrated from the warm up. I did a great warm-up, I feel well with the bike. But then the feeling was not very good, but in the end in the race I felt good. I was trying to follow Valentino and I was able to do it in some part of the race, even I was able to be faster. But at other points, this character of the bike, it was floating at the rear a lot. I had this floating feeling that we have at the beginning of the season in dry conditions. Again, in the rain, I had this feeling and it was difficult to manage during the race because we couldn't work on the set-up. I tried to manage, but in the end when I was behind Valentino (Rossi), I arrived at the end of the straight on the brakes, I lose the rear. The rear was locked and just when I tried to save the crash I was already flying.

“Now we lost the option for the world championship, but we will try to win many, many races, as much as possible, from here to the end of the season. Not 'win or zero' but, you know, more or less my style.”

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