Francesco Bagnaia v Maverick Vinales collision at French MotoGP - “a racing incident, but if you apportion blame…”
Bagnaia and Viñales have crashed out!
— MotoGP on BT Sport (@btsportmotogp)
It's getting a bit messy between them on the gravel
And now Espargaro an🉐d Marini have gone down, too.
Factory Ducati rider Bagnaia and Aprilia’s Vinales made contact as they scrapped for P3 then both crashed out at Le Mans - they even physically scu💮ffled in the gravel before later making up.
ไMichael Lave♔rty assessed it via BT Sport: “A complete racing incident, really.
“If you are going to apportion blame, it goes slightly on Pecc🌺o because he was behind. He had the choice not to lean in on top of Vi꧑nales.
“Vinales made the move. He had🗹 a little bit of room to control the corner.
“Pecco squared it up the in𒈔side, trying to lean in. We saw Marc Marquez execute it - he squared it enough to let the other rider know.
“So Pecco stays on the line,ꦆ you’ve goꦅt to know that Vinales is going to drift back.”
Sylvain Gꦫuintoli added: “I agree. It was Pecco’s fault. A race incident, just two guys g♋oing for the same line.
“B꧒ut Maverick was on the line, on♚ the inside. Pecco should have left more room.
"We saw a similar situation 🔜with Marc and Jorge Martin. They left room for each other.
“This was important for Pecco, another blow in the cham🍷pionship race.”
Marco Bezze🐬cchi, the Mooney VR46 rider, won his second grand prix of 2023.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports😼 for a decade covering everything from American s♏ports, to football, to F1.
