Maverick Vinales: “Plenty of room” in Pecco practice start "scare"

“When I saw the crash, I said ‘maybe I touche꧙d h🐠im’. But then I saw the replay”

Maverick Vinales, 2024 Solidarity Barcelona MotoGP
Maverick Vinales, 2024 Solidarity Barcelona MotoGP

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Maverick Vinales insisted he did nothing unusual in the practice start incident that saw title contender 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Francesco Bagnaia crash after the chequered flag on Friday morning at the Barcelona MotoGP finale.

Vinales put an outside pass on a slow-moving Bagnaia in the Tu꧑rn 1 br🍬aking zone.

🍰Although there was no contact, Bagnaia was startled by the move, grabbed his front brake and fel꧅l.

“My mistake was to slow down that much, but honestly when you are arriving that fast you go to the inside,” Bagnaia ♛said.

“So I started to hear him, and I thought ‘Okꦇay, he will go to🔯 the inside’.

“But as soon as I saw him ꦜarriving with enormous speed on the outside, on the kerb, with the bike moving, I got scared, so I lost th💮e front like this.”

Vinales highlighted that the ♋purpose of a practice start is not only to launch off the line but to understand the correct braking ꦍpoint for Turn 1.

“For me, it's not about who is at fault,” said the Aprilia rider. “In the end, a practice start is to practice the start, so you arrive at the first corner trying to ꩵdisengage [the holeshot devices as in a real start] so you brake late.

“I saw Pecc🐬o was in the middle, very slow. I don't know why. And I tried to avoid him. I went to the outside, but I gave like two bikes [space]. I didn't even pass close-clo❀se.

“When I🎀 saw the crash, I said ‘maybe I touched him’, I don't know.

“But then I saw the replay and there was plenty of room. I think he got maybe scared or something. He grabbed the fr🌳ont br🅰ake and locked the front tyre.”

Bagnaia, seeking to overturn a big 24-point title advantage fo🍷r Jorge Martin this weekend, later finished on top💦 of the Friday afternoon timesheets with Vinales in sixth.

“We are through to Q2, so that's a good thing,” said Vinales. “Unfort🅰unately, on the last time attack, I had two yellow flags🌞, so I could not make the lap.

“But from my point of view, we are more competitꦏiveღ here than in May."

But can Vinales, the only rider to defeat the Ducatis in a grand prix this ꦕseason courtesy of his COTA victory, take them on in this weekend's final RS-GP appearance?

“I wish I could, but I don't know. It’s like always, if I'm looking at the lap times today, I will tell you I can fight wit𓂃h them. But let's see tomorrow,” 🔯he said. “I don't know the improvement they're going to make.”

Team-mate Aleix Espargaro was third fastest.

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