Thailand MotoGP: Aleix Espargaro explains being “angry with other riders” in heated debate over conditions
Espargaro was animated in conversation with Dorna representatives during the delayed sta🐻rt to the race, caused by rain and standing water.
He insists that he was not adv♏ocating the race was📖 cancelled, but was instead frustrated that other riders were not sharing their thoughts about the dangerous conditions.
“I was angry with the other riders,” he said.
“I said: ‘The track is perfect, we c๊an race, but please clean [Turn 3 and 4] because th♌ere is no visibility! A lot of rivers crossing the track. You have to improve that part, please!’
“It’s not that I didn’t want to race.
“Fabio said tಌo me: ‘There is no visibility!’ I said to him: ‘Go and tell 💛them!’
“You cannot stay sitting on the bike then, if there is a crash, ℱblame everybody.
“There is a Safety Commission. I raised it on the grid. It’s good that we can givဣe information to them and they can improve the track. They tried their best.”
Espargaro: "Fabio still the man to beat"
Espargaro finished 11th but has closed the gap in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:MotoGP 2022 standings to 20 points behind leader Quartararo, who scored no points in✃ Buriram.
“This is the second-best thing of today,” Espargaro said. “The first🌃 is that I will go home to my family.
♈“Next is Australia and Malaysia which is good for us.
“Fabio is still the man to beat.”
He said about receiving a long lap penalty after colliding with Brad Binder: “On the straight I was parallel to him. We braked together and h🥀e released the rbake fr⛦om outside. I couldn’t avoid it. We touched each other.
“💃But with the visibility and the we𝐆t? With how difficult it is to overtake?
“Franco Morbidelli hit me twice on the last laps. He was looking for a contra🀅ct for next year!
“It was incredible. I didn’t understand. He got no long la♚p penalty. This is okay, it’s raci🦂ng.
“I saw other overtaking on the limit. It’s dif๊ficult.
“I do not understand [my long lap penalty].”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football꧙, to 🌳F1.
