Thailand MotoGP: Aleix Espargaro explains being “angry with other riders” in heated debate over conditions
Espargaro was animated in conversation with Dorna representatives during the delayed start🐎 to the race, caused by rain and standing w🌸ater.
He insists t🐈hat he was not advocating the race was cancelled, but was instead frustrated that other riders were not sharing their thoughts ab▨out the dangerous conditions.
“I was angry with the other riders,” he said.
“I said: ‘The track is perfect, we can race, bu♐t please clean [Turn 3 and 4] because there is no visibility! A lot of rivers crossing the track. You have to improve that part, please!’
“It’s not that I didn’t want to race.
“Fabio said to me: ‘There is no visibility!’ I said to h♌im: ‘Go and tell them!’
“You cannot stay sitting on the bike then, if the🎃re is a crash, blame everybody.
“There is a Safety Commission. I raised it on the grid. It’s good that we can give information to them and they can improve the track. ꦐ𝕴They tried their best.”
Espargaro: "Fabio still the man to beat"
Espargaro finished 11th but has closed the gap in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:MotoGP 2022 standings to 20❀ poi💟nts behind leader Quartararo, who scored no points in Buriram.
“This is the second-best thin🧸g of today,” Espargaro said. “The first is that I wiᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚll go home to my family.
“Next is Australia anꦗd Malaysia which is good for us.
“Fabio is still the man to beat.”
He said about receiving a long lap penalty after colliding with Brad Binder: “On the straight I was parallel to him. We brak🍰ed together and he released the rbake from outside. I couldn’t avoid it. We touched each other.
“But with the visibility and the wet? With how difficult it is to ove🔯rtake?
“Franco Morbidelli hit me twice on the la꧃st la🎃ps. He was looking for a contract for next year!
“It was incredible. I didn’t understand. He got no long lap penalty. This is 𒈔okay, it’s racing.
“I saw other overtaking on the limit. It’s 🔯difficult.
“I do not understand [my long lap penalty].”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering♌ everything from American sports, to f🎃ootball, to F1.
