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But Marquez put the crashes down to his willingness to take risks, and said he will do the same on Saturday for FP3 and qualifying even if it means a third crash.

The Honda rider explained that “every race I want to see if I have this fire inside me, and I have,” adding that he had been able to ride in a completely normal way on Friday for the first time amid his continuing recovery from arm surgery.

He said: “The grip level was good, especially when you come from Malaysia. Malaysia was very poor for us.

“You arrive here and the grip level was good, then with a high grip level our bike is working better.

“Even like this today, I had some problems and I didn’t feel the way to push. But it’s the last race, it’s a Spanish GP, and I decide to take a risk.

“I take a risk today, I crashed twice, I will take a risk tomorrow. Maybe I crash again, I don’t know, but I will take a risk on Sunday the same, because I want to finish in a good way.

“But in the end, I have what I have, and then I will try, but I have what I have and I need to wait until Tuesday [in the post-event test] to do I hope another step.”

Asked whether he had struggled more than he expected at Circuit Ricardo Tormo, Marquez added: “No, I struggle what I expected.

“I said yesterday it will be between Australia and Malaysia, and we are at the moment between Australia and Malaysia, we are fourth.

“We are there. I know that tomorrow with a single lap for the fast lap it will be difficult even to be in the front two rows, maybe the target is to be in the third row. But we will see.

“As I say, I will take risks because I want to do something more on my side. Then the result, maybe it’s worse or the same than Malaysia or Australia.

“But on my side, during all the races, I was fast but always trying to control everything.

“But every race I want to see if I have this fire inside me, and I have. Today I showed to myself if I want, I can push, but I have what I have and I can do what I can do, no more.”

Despite a strong result on Friday, Marquez had an audibly sore throat, and told journalists he was taking medication after waking up feeling unwell.

He said: “I’m destroyed. I’m happy, because the target of my comeback was improve my right arm, and we improve a lot.

“Today I ride normal way and it was a long time that I don’t ride like a normal way, so for that reason I push more and I crash more.

“But I was riding very good, but I get up and I was sick. I’m taking medicines and yeah, tomorrow I hope to feel better and Sunday better but you never know.”

For just the fifth time in the modern MotoGP era, the championship battle will be decided at the final round of the season.

Quartararo trails Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia by 23 points coming into the finale, and needs to win on Sunday and hope his rival is 15th or lower to have any hope of retaining the crown.

The reigning champion is injured coming to Valencia, having fractured the middle finger on his left hand, and several times in FP1 the Yamaha rider was seen stretching his hand on cool-down laps.

Quartararo set the pace early on with a 1m33.439s, taking over from Honda’s Marc Marquez.

The pair traded the op spot several times over the opening course of the 45-minute practice, with Marquez leading the way with a 1m31.805s after seven minutes of running.

Around 15 minutes later, Marquez slid off his Honda at Turn 2, but was quickly able to rejoin the session on his number one bike.

With just under 14 minutes to go, Quartararo returned to the top of the order with a 1m31.399s which would go unbeaten through to the chequered flag.

Marquez held onto second, 0.035 seconds adrift of Quartararo, while KTM’s Brad Binder completed the top three.

Bagnaia made a steady start to the biggest weekend of his grand prix career, the factory Ducati rider 0.6s off the pace of Quartararo down in 17th.

Jack Miller was fourth at the end of FP1 as he begins his final weekend as a Ducati rider, with Alex Rins fifth as Suzuki begins its farewell round.

Pramac’s Johann Zarco headed teammate Jorge Martin in sixth, with Miguel Oliveira eighth as he starts his final round with KTM ahead of Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro and Honda-bound Joan Mir on the sister Suzuki.

Luca Marini was 11th on the VR46 Ducati from Tech3 KTM’s Raul Fernandez, Yamaha’s Franco Morbidelli and Gresini’s Enea Bastianini – the four-time race winner claiming on Thursday that Ducati has not issued any new factory orders in regards to racing Bagnaia this weekend.

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Remy Gardner started his final MotoGP weekend 15th for Tech3 ahead of Maverick Vinales on the sister Aprilia, while Alex Marquez trailed Bagnaia in 18th on his LCR Honda from factory counterpart Pol Espargaro and VR46’s Marco Bezzecchi.

Cal Crutchlow’s final race as an RNF Racing stand-in began with him in 21st from Fabio Di Giannantonio (Gresini), LCR Honda’s Takaaki Nakagami and RNF’s Darryn Binder – who crashed at Turn 1 with 20 minutes to go.