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After starting from 21st on the grid Luca Marini managed to recover only two positions in the Thai GP Sprint race, and at the finish line he was unable to hide his disappointment for not being able to make concrete Friday's good performance.
"A bad day. I honestly expected more, as well as to make a breakthrough that did not come. With the new tire we all suffered on the Honda, and Zarco himself was not able to replicate yesterday's good performance. Evidently we lacked something, plus in the race the conditions were complicated because of poor grip. The others on new rubber seem to enjoy more grip than us, so as a result in the first two laps it is complicated to fight and overtake. Either you do it right away at the start in the first two braking sections or it becomes more difficult. When the tires drop I think we are there, but now we are not competitive enough. Here we are suffering even more because of the heat and we don't have enough speed on the straight since the engine matters so much here," he highlighted the deficits of his RC213 V.
Casting his gaze to Sunday afternoon, the rider from the Marche instead declared, "The weather forecast is uncertain, but the hope is that it stays dry. In terms of set-up we will go back to the basic one I have always used, because yesterday we experimented with an alternative one in view of 2025, but it did not work. The bike doesn't turn, so it forces me to lean a lot and the tires don't have grip, so we prefer to put things back the way they were. A flag-to-flag race would still be interesting to have fun and do something more crazy."
Turning to the title fight and the gap to make up Bagnaia now has, 22 points behind Martin, he commented, "Now it's getting tough for him. I didn't expect that. I rewatched the highlights and when he was ahead of Jorge I was convinced that he would not be able to steal points from him and instead the Spaniard showed that he is in a great period of form. It must be said that when he feels strong he makes mistakes. In my opinion it is still long and Pecco is doing well, without risking too much. When it's time to attack he will do it."
With eight Ducatis ahead of everyone, it seems difficult for the other manufacturers to catch up. "Next year there will be six and that's already something. In any case, kudos to them for how they have organized themselves, they have been able to bring up young riders who are now very strong, a step above their rivals. The engineering group is also top notch, and then they can enjoy a lot of data accumulated in the past. There are several reasons why they are ahead, you simply have to be able to adapt to the new way of doing MotoGP," was his view.
