The six-time world champion returned to action last weekend at the Sepang test having spent three months on the sidelines with a double vision issue, which ruled him out of the last two races of 2021.
Having only resumed his bike training two weeks before the Sepang test, Marquez admitted he was drained at the end of it – while he found it hard to understand the front end of the radically revised RC213V.
Marquez was a low-key 17th and 1.3 seconds off the pace on Friday in Indonesia, but says he was able “to feel the bike” better than he did last weekend in Malaysia.
“Today has been the first day that I’ve felt something special,” Marquez said on Friday.
“Malaysia was fast, but I don’t feel the bike. Today I start to feel the bike and already some changes.
“Let’s see tomorrow, we will do another change. But yeah, with a new bike, also with my situation of course I would like to have one or two days more.
“But in the end it’s like this and we will see, still two more days here.
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