“When Marc Marquez crashed I was behind him, he did nothing wrong, I was scared”
Marquez crashed for the fifth time across t🌟he weekend in the German MotoGP warm-up, emerging gingerly with a fractured finger although he was passed fit to race.
B𒊎ut, he withdr♏ew, claiming he “wasn’t ready” in a dreadful indictment of the bike that was causing him such physical stress.
“Honestly, before he had the crash I was behind him,” said LCR Honda rider 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Takaaki Nakagami.
“I couldn’t see anything wrong with his riding.
“The speed ♌was good. I didn’t see, from behi🎐nd, that he did anything wrong.
“But he lost🍃 🍒the rear. The bike doesn’t stop that spin.
“I saw a massive high-side.
“I was scared because we use the same bike!
ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ“I had the same feeling that the corner w🦂as really tricky.
“It’s going downhill and I was lo🐈sing it, a couple of times, having the same feeling.
“It was difficult to manage. The bike had less gri𒆙p.
“We need to find a solution for a safer bike.”
Na🤡kagami was the only Honda rider to start the grand prix on Sunday at the Sachsenring, eventually finishing 14th.
The other three are all sidelined with broken bones ෴- surely the starkest reminder that their machinery is forcing them, as Marquez claims, to take too much risk.
Marquez broke a finger, Joan Mir was absent wi♔th a hand injury, andಌ Alex Rins has a broken leg.
Even Nakagami endured a horrible crash on Friday in Germany, tanglinඣg up his previously-injured hand, but he emerged൩ without major damage.
“It cannot be worse,” Nakagami said about the Japanese manufacturer’s current state🧔 in MotoGP.
“We are🌠 normally four riders, four bikes. But today I was the only one on track for Honda.
“I wish them a speedy recovery to be strong.
“As y𒊎ou can see, it is a really, really tough moment.
“At least I feel OK. It’s difficult but I’ll try t▨o not give up.
“I believe HRC have ideas to improve, to🎶 change, th🌺e bike or to be more competitive.
“I don’t🎃 want to fight for a 𝓡point, or to fight for 15th.
“All I can do is ke♐ep pushing, and not take any big risks.”
The Dutch MotoGP at Assen is next weekend and Marquez has hinted that he plans to compete despit🍎e the punishing toll of his three days in Germany.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from A🎃merican sports, to football, to ꦰF1.
