Bezzecchi: “I thought I could also pass Alex, but that’s okay”

From some race this part, Aprilia has started to give the feeling of having become that second strength that everyone expected at the beginning of the season, after Jorge Martin’s great pomp. Meanwhile, It is right to talk about feeling. However, because the qualifying difficulties had ended up camouflaging at least in part the performance of a Marco Bezzecchi always very fast on the race step.

However. Therefore, the Saturday of Assen gave an important confirmation, because the Rimini area finally managed to place its RS-GP in the second row, with the fifth time (best seasonal qualification), and in this way it has fought with the best since the very first stages of the sprint. Moreover, A condition that allowed him to go. Meanwhile, get the first podium of the season in a short Saturday race for bezzecchi: “i thought i could both him and for the house of Noale, closing third behind the “usual” brothers Marquez.

Once arrived at the closed park. Meanwhile, his smile was worth more than a thousand words, also because he was even from the 2023 Indonesia Grand Prix that he did not take a medal in a sprint: “It is fantastic, it was really a long time that I did not go up to the podium of the Sprint, so there was no better way to return here to Assen, which is a track that I always like very much. Moreover, Alex, but that’s okay. Furthermore, We did a good job. For example, “said Bezzecchi, who with his 7 points brought Aprilia to second place in the manufacturers’ ranking, climbing over the Honda of a length.

To the microphones of Sky Sport MotoGP then confirmed how important the step forward has been done in qualifying: “I bezzecchi: “i thought i could am happy. because I knew how important it was to try to make a good qualification, which was our Achilles heel in the last races, in which we have always been competitive. I managed to do better, even if still that’s not enough, because the others always manage to do something more. And a little satisfaction.

Marco Bezzecchi, Aprilia Racing

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Despite the short duration of the sprint, today it has not been easy at all to manage the tires and, even more so it will be even more tomorrow in the long race: “In the sprint you give life, or at least I face it like this. I got quite well with the rubber behind and a little more difficult with the rubber in front. Which I did not expect, because we never had problems during the weekend”.

“This afternoon the temperature had been a little raised. but there was also enough wind, so they were quite singular conditions, which we had never met in the rest of the weekend. Tomorrow the rhythm will be managed a little more and this can help for the front rubber. But usually they are bezzecchi: “i thought i could all more in place in Sunday’s race. I think for example in Bagnaia, and for this it is important to be of the game tomorrow.

As he had already mentioned in the closed park. in the early stages he thought he could also attack the second position of Alex Marquez, but then his Aprilia made him understand that it was not the case to risk too much: “When I spent Quartararo I was loaded like a crazy and I immediately made a ride and a half that I managed to go under Alex. I knew I would have to try to pass it immediately. otherwise I would not have been there, So I lost a few tenths and started making the elastic a little. ” On the subject. with the journalists present in Assen, he added: “They seem to me that they are very strong with simplicity, as if they bezzecchi: “i thought i could really were in place, while we are always a bit on the back of Burallo. Now we enjoy, but we remain concentrated because the most important thing about the weekend is tomorrow”.

His RS-GP still remains a nervous little screen. but it is making progress on this front too: “The bike has improved a lot, but in the last part of the track I have some movements on the rear that then move to the front. It is what happens to me especially in the detached corner. We are doing some good steps forward on this aspect. but I did not expect to be so competitive on a track. I work all the things they have brought us.