Alex Marquez admitted that he didn’t “have the answers” to explain just how he managed to seal a second successive Spanish MotoGP victory.
Marquez took the lead from elder brother Marc Marquez on Lap 2, and remained unchallenged at the front for the remained of the 26-lap race.
After a difficult start to the season for Ducati riders, Marquez was perhaps the surprise rider to break the manufacturer’s duck given he was outside the top 10 in the standings coming into the weekend.
Even Marquez himself had no idea how he managed to produce such a “magic” result.
“What happened? Good question!” Marquez said via Crash.net.
“I don’t have the answers. I think it’s something magic, Jerez. From the Friday, I was flying. I don’t know why, honestly.
“We need to analyse to see what happened compared to the first three races at the beginning of the season.
“But anyway, I think I rode over the problems, just thinking on the positive things, just pushing with the team and with the Ducati over the problems, and just focusing on the positive things.
“I extracted the positive things, which this bike has many, but we were not able to extract them in the first three races.
“It’s really unexpected. It’s true that today we were with the favourite ones with the better pace, but the plan was the perfect way.”
As the pre-race favourite, the Spanish rider admitted he knew a victory was possible after he took second place on the opening lap.
Marquez commended himself for executing “the perfect plan” which allowed him to claim his first victory of the season.
“When I saw I was second on the first lap, I said, ‘Ok, you have many possibilities, we need to go for it’.
“Then I decided to overtake Marc, and from that moment not make mistakes and try to make my pace, exactly the same pace I had in the Practice on Friday evening.
“It was the perfect plan. I was able to push in the moments when it was necessary and to have something in the pocket when it was necessary.”
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