Marquez had a heavy crash throughout FP4 on Saturday and suffered a gentle concussion, which meant he couldn’t compete in qualifying.
Although he was cleared match to journey in Sunday’s race, the LCR rider needed to come from final on the grid however took the chequered flag in 10th.
With Marquez’s MotoGP future unsure at LCR and Honda, he admits that each end result now could be “necessary” for him.
“Wonderful, no. We’re removed from glorious,” he mentioned of his race.
“I might put 6 [out of 10] on our race.
“It was good, not glorious. We saved the weekend kind of, we saved ranging from the again of the grid.
“I used to be simply making an attempt to provide my 100% each lap and simply attempt to get pleasure from.
“That’s it. I attempted to handle the tender rear tyre, which for me was the one selection I used to be planning on utilizing for the race.
“HRC got here to me asking 100 occasions if I used to be certain, Michelin, everyone.

Alex Marquez, Staff LCR Honda, Staff LCR Honda
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“I used to be fairly certain as a result of with the medium and exhausting it was unimaginable to journey the bike on the entry.
“It was the one level to have it. So we saved a very troublesome weekend.
“Each end result now could be necessary for my future, for the whole lot.
“As I mentioned, I’ll attempt to preserve going like this, attempt to preserve enhancing the Honda and assist the HRC manufacturing facility.”
Marquez’s LCR team-mate Takaaki Nakagami was embroiled within the controversy in Barcelona after he triggered an accident involving Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia and Suzuki’s Alex Rins – the latter struggling a fractured left wrist.
Nakagami needed to be stored in hospital in a single day having hit Bagnaia’s bike together with his face, however escaped damage.
The Japanese rider’s place at LCR can also be below risk for 2023, with Moto2 frontrunner Ai Ogura in line to take his seat.
Jack Miller had been linked to Marquez’s LCR seat for subsequent yr, however is now set to hitch the manufacturing facility KTM squad.
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