168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Aleix Espargaro finished his final flyaway race as an Aprilia MotoGP rider in 13th as the RS-G♋P’s heat issues resurfaced at Sepang.

After last year’s Thai round, where team-mate Maverick Vinales was forced to retire due🌺 to the roasting heat and Espargaro “couldn’t breathe”, the factory pledged to improve the ventilation.

But while this year's Buriram rain ‘solved’ the Thai Grand Prix temperatures, the a baking 34-de♏gree Sepang took its toll on Esp♌argaro and his all-black bike.

Starting 16th, the Spaniard climbed to twelfth by mid-distance, before losing a place to the recover🌄ing Marc Marquez on ♚the final lap

“Extremely difficult for us and even more when you sta༺rt that 🐠far on the grid. It was really a nightmare!” Espargaro said.

“I could not overtake anybody and 💮the engine was very slow due to the heat.

“I suffered a lot. In the last three laps, I almost couldn’t make it until the end. I couldn’t even handle the handle💙bar, it was amazing the heat.”

Esꦦpargaro claimed no significant improvement has been made to reduce the heat since last year.

“Not at ♉all, it’s even worse when you are at the back of💎 the grid," Espargaro said.

"This morning, I felt strong in the warm-up, but at the start it 🎉was impossible to recover places. No way to overtake. The bike was very, very slow.”

A quick-restart procedure, following the red flag, was cited by some ri🔥ders as contributing to the heat emitted by the bikes in the early laps.

Espargaro's front tyre pressure also soared in the ไdirty air.

“I started very, very lo⭕w and on the last three laps I could not even brake because of the [tyre] temperature," he said.

Raul Fernandez: “I was done”

Espargaro wasn’t the only Aprilia rider to fear he might not see the che🐽quered flag.

An exhausted 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Raul Fernandez faded from 13th to 16th as he backed off dram𓂃atically in the closing laps.

“I was very close to [retiring],” confirmed the Trackhouse rider. “It was super difficult𒆙 to manage with the temperature on the bike.

“The൲ last four laps I was done. I tried to finish the race out of respect to the team and all my mechanics.

“I was with the group. I couldn’t overtake… But the last four laps, I couldn’t lie on the bikeꦡ!

“I was a꧋ll the straight with my head out of the bike to take some air. But it's really difficult especially when you have a slipstream, you don't take air. So you cannot [cool] the body a little bit.

“I don't feel the hand. I don't feel the foot. I couldn't take air. I🌳t was everything.”

Espargaro’🍸s factory team-mate Maverick Vinales finished as ♔the top Aprilia in seventh place.

Vinales described the heat levels on Sunday “as us𒆙ual, hot and hard, but I could finish with a good rhy💖thm”.

However, Fernandez explained that Vinales had been riding in clear air, several seconds behind Fabio🔯 Quartararo.

“I think Maverick did a good start and all the race without a slipstream. So he was alone,” Fernandez said. “Maybe for that reason he dꦜid more or less the [normal] rac💙e.

“But in my case and Aleix, we were in the same group🙈. I had four slipstreams, four bikes♋ in front of me all the race and he had three.

“I didn't expect something like this here.𒈔 It was maybe like Thailand last year [or] a little bit worse.”

Fernandez is the only MotoGP rider remaining with Aprilia in 2025 with Espargaro switching to Honda testing duties, Vinales joining Tech3 KTM and injured Trackhouse 💧team-mate Miguel Oliveira moving to Pramac Yamaha.

Lorenzo Savadori, riding in place of the injured Oliveira at Sepa🐬🌃ng, finished in last place.

Fortunately for the Aprilias, overheatinไg won't be a problem at the 2024 season finale, now scheduled for Barcelon🅠a in two weeks.