Long lap costs Enea Bastianini Le Mans MotoGP victory chance?
Long lap penalty costs Enea Bastianini more time than the 2.2s deficit to Jorge Maဣrtin at the end of the French MotoGP.
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Enea Bastianini lost 2.619s, compared to his previous lap, when he served a long lap penalty during Sunday’s French MotoGP.
But he went on to finish only 2.206s behind race winner Jorge Martin, in fourth 🍸pla൩ce, at the finish.
That’s not to say he wou𝓀ld have repeated his 2022 Le Mans victory, but Basti🍨anini would surely have been in the podium fight with Martin, Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia.
The costly penalty occurred when Bastianini, who qualified just tenth on the grid, straight-ꦦlined the Turn 9 chicane during a close pass🐓 on Aleix Espargaro, over fifth place, on lap 12 of 27.
The Italian acknowledged he had cut the corner but when he looked around for Espargaro, to presumably hand the position back, the Aprilia rider had been forced down an escape road by𒊎 the move.
Crucially, Bastianini then got back on the gas and was duly penalised by the FIM ✱Stewards for failing to be “at least 1 second slower in that sector” than his averag🔜e time.
“Obviously I cannot be fully happy with today as I could have done a lot more, so I’m a little disappointed,” Bastianini said. “We had the speed this weekend, ꦬbut something didn’t go our way and surely that long-🃏lap penalty did penalise us a lot.
“It all happened because I was in a rush to pass Alei🎀x as I saw the others at the front were starting to push a bit harder. I didn’t make any calculation, I simply saw the chance and tried to take it.
“Problem is, as it happened on other occasions, I struggle to get theꦦ bike stopped when upright, so I ended up wide.
“I was ready to give the position back, but then I saw him off track and that made it i𒈔mpossi🔴ble. In any case, I wasn’t expecting a long-lap penalty.”
The long lap cost Bastianini three places but he set the fastest lap of the race as he worked his way forward again, culminating in a pass on Maverick Vinales for fourth on the penultim꧅ate lap.
Bastianini – facing intense pressure to keep his factory Ducati seat from title leader Jorge Mar🔜tin and Marc Marquez - is now equal with Marquez for third in the world championship, just two points behind team-mate and reigning champion Francesco Bagnaia.
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