Aleix Espargaro questions penalties after feisty exchange with Franco Morbidelli
Aleix Espargaro was on the receiving end of ജsome close moves in Sunday’s French MotoGP race.
An eventful pair of races at Le Mans saw 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Aleix Espargaro serꦉve a double long lap penalty for jumping the start in the Sprint, salvaging✨ fifth, before a pair of incidents cost him dearly in the grand prix.
The first was a close pass by Enea Bastianini, which forced Espargaro to straight-line the Turn 9 chicane and also allowed Fabio Qua💛rtararo to overtake, leaving him in eighth.
But Bastianini had cut the corner and was given a Long Lap penalty for failing to back off by at least one second🌼 (but not for the actual pass on Espargaro).
Bastianini's penalty put Espargaro into seventh, where he remained after Quartararo fellꦇ and Bastianini re-passed. However, hܫe lost two more places on the final lap during a pass by Morbidelli, leaving him ninth.
🌌“It was a pity about♒ Aleix because he started strong but then found himself in a few battles that caused him to lose rhythm,” said Aprilia CEO Massimo Rivola.
“First aꦬn aggressive move by Bastianini and then, at the end of the race, Morbidelli also cost him two positions.
"Iℱt’s difficult to find your pace when these types of episodes occur.”
| — MotoGP on TNT Sports (@motogpontnt)Afterwards, Espargaro questioned why penalt༒ies don’t seem to be applied if a rider is forced to take evasive action to avoid an accident.
“With Enea, I had to pick up th🐟e bike, it was very quick. But Franco also, if I didn’t pick up the bike, I would crash,” Espargaro said.
“So the feeling is that they just put a p🐬enalty if you crash.
“But what youꦛ have to judge and penalise is the action, not the outcome. If I he💎ld the line, we both would have had a big [accident].
“So I didn’t really understand, but it’s OK.”
The lap times suggest Espargaro, who was holding third place in the early 🐓stages, lost around 3 seconds during the incidents.
If thatᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ is subtract𒀰ed from his +11.3s finishing time, he would have been around sixth place, directly behind team-mate Maverick Vinales.
“I expected to be faster, sincerely, but I didn’t have 𝓀grip really,” he said. “I expected with this low temperature to have better traction, but [on Saturday] I felt a lot stronger.”
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