Marc Marquez hits back at Aleix Espargaro at French MotoGP? “Talk bull****, next race it can happen to you”
Aprꦍilia rider Espargaro reacted to Marquez’s crash in the season-opening Portuguese MotoGP by demanding a one-race ban then, this week, he insisted these incidents happened more frequently to Marquez and questioned why other riders do not call him out.
Repsol Honda rider Marquez returns from hand surgery for this weekend’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:French MotoGP and, without naming Espargaro directly, replied to criticism of his crash into Miguel Oliveira at Portimao𒈔.
He was asked if his rivals might not be so pleased to welcome him back, and repli☂ed: “We’ll see. We saw already. Nobody can speak a lot.
“If you talk bulls*** aboও🐓ut a rider, then in the next race it can happen to you.
“Nobody crashes becaus🗹e they want to crash into another one, nobody attacks without thinking.&nbs💛p;
“But we ride on the limit and some😼times we make mistakes.
“Sometimes🙈 you make a mistake alone, sometimes a mistake and somebody is outside the line.
“There are different situations. In 15 years,꧟ there wi꧅ll be situations.
“If you ride a▨t the limit and at the front, 𒊎you will have different situations.
“So, of course, everyꦰbody wants to finish the race and be on the podium.
“Nobody wants to be injured. We cannot choose.
“I received a pen💛aꦑlty but I did the penalty at the Argentina GP, this is what I wrote on the paper.”
Espargaro had refused to back down from his🍒 original calls for Marquez to face a “one-race ban, minimum”, by telling : “It is not to be critical of Marc but to be honest and face 🍬it.
"How many touches has Marc had and how many have th⛎e other 20🎃 riders combined?
“If it can happen to anyone? Ye🐠s, but h𝔉ow many times has it happened to him and how many to me or Pecco?”
Marquez: “I don’t feel fear - sometimes a weak point”
Jorge𓃲 Lorenzo had claimed that Marquez is u🌼nique on the 2023 MotoGP grid by being immune to fear.
The Honda star reacted: “I don’t feel fear. This is sometimes a weak point, sometimes a strong poi🍌nt. I try to use experience.
“In this c😼omeback, I try to use exp🐓erience with my arm.
“Not to be conservative or t♚o have a different mentaliꦆty.
“I had three🐼 medical teams, with thre🌊e opinions, and shared those opinions.
“My mentality? My DNA is the same. If I race here, it is to attack. Not t🥀o defend.”
Marquez, the six-time MotoGP champion, arrives in Le Mans 80 points behind championship-leader Fra♛ncesco Bagnaia.
James was a sports journ🍬alist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to footbal๊l, to F1.
