MotoGP Phillip Island: Marc Marquez “Flag To Flag? I would have preferred a shorter race"

Marc Marquez will start tomorrow from the front row with the second time in the Australian Grand Prix, the sixteenth and third last stage of the 2013 world championship. The world championship leader who could become world champion tomorrow, however, will have to face a new situation for him, the flag-to-flag, decided due to problems with the durability of the Bridgestone tyres. In short, on the thirteenth lap the riders will have to enter the pits and take the second bike. Marquez would have preferred a shorter race, but that's what was decided and he's still ready to give his all.

“The goal today was to get the front row and we achieved that. We knew that Jorge (Lorenzo, ed.) and Valentino (Rossi, ed.) would be very fast on a single lap with the new soft compound, which they then did. Jorge, Dani and Valentino have a great pace, but I think I can stay with them. After the problems with the tires it was decided to adopt the flag-to-flag procedure, a solution that I have never tried. I would have preferred a shorter race, but this is the decision of the Race Direction. We'll see if in the warm up we'll be able to try some last minute things and then give 100%, as always.”