MotoGP Catalunya: Luca Marini: Bagnaia incident ‘shocking', 'My helmet was full of oil'
Just moments after a four-ridꦕer pile-up had taken out Marini's VR46 team-mate Marco Bezzecchi, race leader and reigning champion Bagnaia was thrown from his factory Ducati.
The Italian landed in the path of Brad Binder, whose KTM was already spraying fluid after being damaged by debris ꦗfrom Bagnaia’s bouncing bike.
Miraculous, follo𓆉wing hospital checks, it was announced that Bagnaia had escaped without any fractures.
Marini, who rode from 16th to 11th after the restart, said: “Yeah, quite difficult [mentally] because it i💦nvolve๊d Pecco especially. We have a very good friendship.
“It was quite shocking, his incident, when I watched the replay on TV. But fortunately, I kne🔯w that he was OK. Nothing huge [injuries]. So this was the🍰 most important thing.
“Buജt apart from this, I think we are also professional riders and we are able to switch our minds and come back in a good mindset to make another start. Also because [this kind of thing] happened in our career many times.”
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“I don't know what happened, but fr𝔉om Pecco’s bike or Binder there was a lot of spray. My helmet was full of oil and 𒊎I changed it,” he added.
“Fortunatelꦯy, for the second start everything went fine.ಞ”
In terms of his own race, Marini’s result was conditioned by🦩 a poor൲ qualifying and then a bad restart.
“I made my worst start of the season maybe, but this weekend I was not so strong in the starts. I don't know why,” he said. “Then I was fighting w🦹ith all the other riders, but I'm quite slow in acceleration.
“And also with these wings and eveඣrything, when you stay in the slipstream of another rider, you lose a lot in the first part of acceleration.
“For me that I'm not so fast in the straights [anyway]. So it was a complicated r♊ace, was impossible to overtake other riders and then when you make all the race behind other riders, the pre🏅ssure of your front tyre goes [up].
“So it's difficult then also to brake, stop the bike, entering the corners, it’s something that builds up a disast💜er race. A lot of things together, that🎃 if you can start 6th, nothing happened and maybe you finished 6th with my same pace.
“Now MotoGP is like this. We know and this is one of the reason also because everybody risks so much at the first corner. Because then it's impossible to recover.💯”
Marini now heads to his ൩and the VR46 Ducati team’s home Misano round holding seventh in the world championship.
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