How 'demotivated' Marco Bezzecchi used sprint struggles to win Brazil MotoGP

Marco Bezzecchi turned around a Brazilian MotoGP weekend from struggling for motivation on Friday to taking his fourth successive grand prix victory on Sunday.

Bezzecchi ended Practice third-last, ahead of only Raul Fernandez and Enea Bastianini in 20th. It meant a route to Q2 through Q1, which he navigated successfully, ultimately qualifying on the front row.

Such was the extent of his deficit on Friday, over two seconds to the front of the MotoGP field, Bezzecchi admitted after taking the win on Sunday that it had been hard to keep his motivation up.

“Not bad,” Marco Bezzecchi told the MotoGP world feed in his post-race parc ferme interview.

“I'm very happy. 

“It was a tough weekend, it was super-tough on Friday; we started in a bad way and it was difficult to keep the motivation super-high. 

“But the guys did a wonderful job and I also pushed myself over the limit to try to compensate everything I could and at the end we found the way to make the bike in a fantastic way.”

Bezzecchi, though, added that he was able to use his track position in the Sprint to learn how to improve for Sunday.

“After the Practice I sat down with my crew and said ‘Let’s try to calm down, we work on everything that we can, we look at all the details, all the lines, everything, and we try to adjust this weekend because I want to do better’,” he said, speaking to MotoGP.com’s After the Flag post-race show.

“Saturday I started in a better way, I knew it wasn’t enough, in fact in the Sprint I wasn’t [quick enough] to fight for the podium.

“But seeing Diggia [Fabio Di Giannantonio], Marc [Marquez], and Jorge [Martin] for a while also from behind I tried to understand, I tried to copy them a little bit, and tried to adjust even more my riding and this morning I felt better, and I said ‘Okay, maybe I can try to do it’.”

Bezzecchi’s Brazil win was his fourth in a row and the fourth straight win he’s taken by leading every lap, meaning he’s now led 101 consecutive laps in MotoGP grands prix. It’s also a win that took him to the top of the championship, which he now leads by 11 points over his Aprilia Racing teammate, Jorge Martin.