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a decent pace, but I was too o en at the
limit. Maybe with a more 'tradi onal'
weekend we may have had a few more
op ons, but the goal was very different.
We had too many issues with the rear
end of the bike."
73 ALEX MARQUEZ
15TH MOTOGP
LCR Honda Castrol's Alex Marquez got off
to a rough start in the race and couldn't
rebound. "It was a difficult weekend for
us," Marquez said. "We started quite
good, but we struggled in the race and
especially in qualifying. I did my best and
tried to make a good start, then suddenly
in the first corner I got touched by another
rider, which lost me some places. In the
race, I didn't feel confident or good, so
I struggled. We need to improve, and
we need to keep going. This was not the
weekend we expected or hoped for, so I
will try to be much be er in Aus n and
give all the informa on to HRC."
Defending champ
Fabio Quartararo
struggled with
grip resulting in an
eighth-place finish.
Moto2
The classy Celestino Vietti (Mooney
VR46 Racing Team) marched on in
the 2022 Moto2 World Champion-
ship after another stellar performance
saw the Italian claim victory number
two of the season in Argentina.
"[It was] a tough, difficult race and
a really strange grip condition," said
Vietti. "We used the hard for the
first time on the long run, we battled
a lot with overtaking and counter-
overtaking, and maybe I even made
