Marquez has 'rebuilt confidence' after MotoGP British GP despite Bastianini crash
The eight-time world champion endured a torrid first half of the 2023 campaign, scoring just 15 points from eight rounds in which he missed races in five of them and crash ed 14 times. It plunged his continued future at Honda into doubt, though he said during the Silverstone weekend that his “intention” is to see out his current contract. Altering his approach this weekend, Marquez was not pushing for results and was simply trying to build a better base set-up on his RC213V, which resulted in his lowly 14th in qualifying and 18th in the sprint. Running as high as 10th before exiting the race in an “unlucky” tangle with Ducati’s Enea Bastianini, Marquez feels his approach has proven beneficial. “Good, today I’m happy,” he said on Sunday. “I’m happy about the weekend because the target was try to rebuild a bit the confidence and try to find the base. “I rebuilt the confidence, but to find the base, we need more races, more race tracks, different situat...