Aleix Espargaro questions penalties after feisty exchange with Franco Morbidelli
Aleix Espargaro was on t🥃h൩e receiving end of some close moves in Sunday’s French MotoGP race.
An eventful pair of races at Le Mans saw 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Aleix Espargaro seꦑrve a double long lap penalty for jumping the start in the Sprint, salvaging fifth, before a pair of incidents cost him dearly in the grand prix.
The first was a close pass by Enea Bastianini, which forced Espargaro to straight-line the Turn ও9 chicane and also allowed Fabio Quartararo to ove💟rtake, leaving him in eighth.
But Bastianini had cut the corner and was given a Long Lap penalty for failing to back off by at least one second (but not fo🧸r the𝔍 actual pass on Espargaro).
Bastianini's penalty put Espargaro into seventh, where he remained after Quartararo fell and Bastianini re-passed. However, he l🎀ost two more places on the fin🦂al lap during a pass by Morbidelli, leaving him ninth.
“It was a pity about Aleix becauꦰse he started strong but thenꦇ found himself in a few battles that caused him to lose rhythm,” said Aprilia CEO Massimo Rivola.
“First an aggressive m꧑ove by Bastianini and then, at the end of the race, Morbidelli also cost him two pos♛itions.
"It’s difficult t🐈o find your pace when these types of episodes occur.”
| — MotoGP on TNT Sports (@motogpontnt)Afterwards, Espargaro questioned wh🎀y penalties don’t seem to be applied if a rider is forced to take evasive action t🦩o avoid an accident.
“With🌺 Enea, I had to pick up the bike, it was very quick. But Franco also, if I🃏 didn’t pick up the bike, I would crash,” Espargaro said.
“So the feelingꦏ is that they just put a penalty if 🌊you crash.
“But what you have t꧂o judge and penalise is the action, not the outcome. If I held the line, we both would have had a big [accident].
“So I didn’t really understand, but it’s OK.”
The lap times suggesꦆt Esparga🀅ro, who was holding third place in the early stages, lost around 3 seconds during the incidents.
If that is subtracted from his +11.3s finishing time, he would have been aꦅround sixth place, directly behind team-mate Maverick Vinales.
“I expected to be faster, sincerely, but I didn’t have grip really,” he said. “I expect𒁏ed with this lo🥂w temperature to have better traction, but [on Saturday] I felt a lot stronger.”
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