Marc Márquez was the third fastest of the MotoGP tests in Valencia, at 0.154s from the top. After reaching the lead on Wednesday, the Honda man did not beat Maverick Viñales (Yamaha) and Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati), but he did not try to do it because crashing was prohibited.

Speaking to the AS newspaper, the world champion said on the one hand that he could not force his progress since it was forbidden to suffer a fall and, on the other, that there were many things to test: ‘At the end of the track tests It was good, but it was not the day to force it. They forbidden me from falling. They told me that if I fell I wouldn’t go to Jerez. I was threatened with a hard punishment, so I took it easy and ended up testing things I had to test, but I did not test everything. There was a very large list of things, because on Tuesday there were not many laps and Wednesday was also late. ‘

Specifically about the work he did on Wednesday, Márquez said: “We started the day very fast, getting well, and when you see these times already, we begin to get involved, to test things and to look for something new. That is where you waste more time, but it is necessary. You spend more time in the box and analyze everything okay. We focused on two new bikes, two specifications a bit different at the engine level and that was where we were getting better and trying to look for things. We collect a lot of information and now it’s time to analyze everything, to take another step in Jerez ‘.