Aleix Espargaro: "The race was a nightmare"
Ale🧸ix Espargaro was tipped as a Qatar pre-race favourite by the likes of Marc Marquez but his grand prix turned in📖to a 'nightmare'.
After a storming end to the Saturday Sprint, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Aleix Espargaro went to sleep dreaming of victory in the season-opening Qatar MotoGP.
Instead, it turned into a 'nightmare', as the factory Aprilia rider st𝄹ruggled for rear grip through💞out the 21 laps and limped home in eighth place.
“Yesterday when I went to sleep, I was sure that I could win the race. B🅠ut it wa꧃s a nightmare. I was extremely slow," said the Spaniard, third in the Saturday race.
"Already on the warm-up lap to the grid I felt that I had no grip at all. Something went wrong with thꦬe rear tyre.
“We have to try to understand what happened with Micheliౠn and the team.
"Obviously with the pace we showed in the last part of the Sprint I was aiming for a completely different race.&nb🐠sp;
"But th൲ere was nothing I could do. It was a nightmare all rac♛e."
Espargaro ജfaded from second to ninth on the opening lap, then finally gained a place when he passed rookie Pedro Acos🐽ta in the closing stages.
The 34-year-old leaves the o🎉pening round sixth in the world championship.
“We showed we havꩲe a go✨od bike. I've been fast all weekend. But I'm a little bit angry because we lost a good opportunity.
"In any case, I am still leaving Qatar knowing that I have a competitive bike and the c🦂hampionship has only just begun."
Team-mate Maverick Vinales was two places and twജo seconds behind Espargaro.
"Compared with yesterday, the feeling improved significantly,” claimed Vinales൩, ninth in the Spri﷽nt but then quickest in the daylight warm-up session.
“We still need to figure o♛ut wh🍨ich points we need to improve on – which are just small details anyway – but we still need to identify the right way forward.
“It was an inte൩resting weekend that allowed us to collect important information anyway. I spent the race today behind various riders and various bikes, which let me identify our strong points and our weaknesses.
“One of the points to imp꧅rove is undoubtedly managing rear tyre wear, which keeps me from being as fast as I’d like to be at the moment."
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at ♏the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
