{"id":52163,"date":"2020-12-29T11:14:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T11:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carinmylife.com\/?p=52163"},"modified":"2020-12-29T11:14:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T11:14:08","slug":"lcr-motogp-move-wont-be-a-total-reset-alex-marquez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carinmylife.com\/racing\/motogp\/lcr-motogp-move-wont-be-a-total-reset-alex-marquez\/","title":{"rendered":"LCR MotoGP move won\u2019t be a total reset – Alex Marquez"},"content":{"rendered":"
The 2019 Moto2 world champion tested for LCR in Valencia last year ahead of his factory team debut in 2020, and will work with ex-Cal Crutchlow crew chief Christophe Bourguignon in 2021.<\/p>\n
Honda made its decision to move Marquez to LCR as a factory-contracted rider before he’d made his MotoGP debut at the Repsol-backed outfit, but Marquez has never felt like the move was hasty.<\/p>\n
After a difficult start to 2020, Marquez came on strong in the second half of the year and scored Honda’s only podiums with a brace of seconds at the French and Aragon Grands Prix.<\/p>\n
When asked if he felt like moving to LCR would be a reset after the progress he made at the factory Honda team, Marquez said: “No, I don’t think I will start from zero. I will have the technician, ‘Beefy’, who has a lot of experience, and everybody in Honda is speaking so good about him.<\/p>\n
“Also, from [the] data [side] coming is David Garcia, my technician in Moto2.<\/p>\n
“So, already I know him really well and he can also help ‘Beefy’, and they can make a good tandem to know me a bit earlier and for ‘Beefy’ I think it will be so positive to have on my side because he knows me really good.<\/p>\n
“I know all the people. I meet them in Portimao, but already from the past I know everybody. Everything looks like it can switch really nice, and I’m looking forward to being in a team where maybe everything is a little bit more calm and the pressure also is more calm.<\/p>\n
“So, I think it can help me to take the experience and keep working like we did in the second part of the season.”<\/p>\n
COVID-19 permitting, the 2021 season is set to consist of 20 races, with Marquez having only ridden at seven of those venues currently slated to host events on a MotoGP bike.<\/p>\n
But, when asked by Motorsport.com if he had to treat 2021 as a second part to his rookie season, Marquez feels the experience he gained this year will be enough to be able to adjust to unfamiliar tracks quickly.<\/p>\n
“This is a little bit strange, because in some tracks that I wasn’t there [before] I was really fast from the beginning, the first run of FP1,” he said.<\/p>\n
“So, it depends on the track, how you switch on at that track and how you manage that situation.<\/p>\n
“But no, it won’t be like a rookie season. Already I have experience and already I know the bike and I know a little bit the secrets how to manage a MotoGP weekend, because it’s so difficult to manage the tyres, how to manage both bikes, you can play with the set-up on both bikes.<\/p>\n
“So, will be interesting to hopefully go to all the tracks to take the experience, but I have experience.<\/p>\n
“I clicked in the second part of the season, so the important thing will be to keep that click and always be in the top eight.”<\/p>\n
Alex Marquez says his switch to the LCR Honda squad for the 2021 MotoGP season won’t be like “starting from zero” as he already knows […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[890],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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