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Marco Bezzecchi stopped just a step away from the Top 10 on Friday in Assen, closing the afternoon session in 12th position, just under two tenths from the time with which Franco Morbidelli took the last useful place to gain rightful access to Q2. A performance always the result of those difficulties that the Romagnolo is experiencing since the beginning of the year in being able to extract the maximum from his GP23 with new tires.
"I like the track and I felt something positive about the bike, but the difficulties I'm experiencing are more or less always the usual ones, the ones I've also had in previous races. I' m struggling a lot especially in the time attack, which is the aspect we've been working on the most for a couple of Grands Prix already and in which I was always very good last year. Even when maybe I wasn't right in terms of pace, I could always be fast and pull out a good lap on new tires, whereas now it's the opposite: I'm not as fast as the first ones but on the pace I feel a little better, however, then I'm cursing all the time when I put on the new tires - explained the Bez - This year I still haven't been able to find that feeling I had with the bike, so we'll have to keep working hard to find a solution, because it's very important to be able to have a good grid position."
Continuing to talk about the difficulties he encountered in Holland as well, the VR46 team rider added, "My riding style is always a bit rear biased and it's even more so on this track, which is very fast and doesn't have a lot of hard braking. Since the new tires have been introduced I always struggle a bit, in fact last year I felt very good here, while now I'm a bit more struggling. But we still have a day and a half to work and we will do our best."
A situation that Bezzecchi will leave behind next year when he mounts the Aprilia Racing team's RS-GP. It will be a completely new dimension for the 25-year-old who, by dressing as an official rider, will have the opportunity to sew the bike on himself by directing its development.
"It will be a little different but I don't really know how it will be because I have never been in an official team. It's also true that up until now I've always had very good packages, very competitive, but that was always what they were, " he acknowledged, " It's still fine, because there are still a lot of races to go and I have to try to take advantage of them to grow as a rider and as a person and then see how it will go in the future.
Looking to a more short-term future, passing the Q1 cut-off will not be the easiest feat, but the Rimini native is convinced he has the means to succeed .
"I'm quite confident but obviously it won't be easy, because Q1 is almost more difficult than Q2, as there are only two places available," he said, " Tonight we will have to work well until late, to try to understand what we can improve, both in terms of riding and on the bike. This is a track on which riding can do so much, so I want to see well what the others did, who were faster than us. Anyway, I'm confident and I hope I can do it, because I would like to start as far ahead as possible so I can have a good race."
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