Simon Crafar delivers “70-30” blame for Pecco Bagnaia-Alex Marquez clash
Next season's chairman of Race Direction has hiꦺs say on Aragon crash

Alex Marquez should take 70% of the blame for the incident in Aragon with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia.
That is the view of Sಞimon Crafar who, next season, will ♏become chairman of Race Direction.
Bagnaia and Marquez crashed out of last weekend’s Aragon MotoGP. Bagnaia has since apologised for claiming that his rival caused 🐠the contact purposely, but remains insistent that Marquez was at fault.
Th𒆙e collision was rul🐭ed a racing incident by FIM stewards.
Crafar offered his frank judgement f🅷rom the paddock in Misano.
“I know that [Aragon] 𒁏circuit well, I’ve done a lot of laps around there,ꦰ” he said.
“I know that🌃, when youﷺ ride wide at Turn 12, your Turn 13 is damaged.
“You are never going to please everyone.
“None of us have t♉he same access to cameras as Race Direction, and I trust they’ve watched every one. They spend a long time analysing and I have to respect what they’ve decided, be💟cause they have more info than us.
“But my guꦯt feeling is that the majority of the blame is with Alex. That’s my take, without having seen all of the cameras that Ra🉐ce Direction have.”
Crafar was asked if Bagnaia should have remained more pati♈ent with his manoeuvre.
He responded: “I bet he wishes that he was!
“That’s w♔hy I say ‘majority’ and not ‘all of the blame’.
“Enea Bastianini pulled the move off safelyܫ, in the race, on two riders.
“I’ve💝 answered how I feel. Unless t🤡here’s info that I don’t know, I won’t change my mind.
“I would say 70-30 on Alex’s side, blame-wise.”
The c꧟lash occurred with just six laps re💖maining. Bagnaia was set to score valuable points in the championship battle.
“He caught Alex two-and-a-half secoღnds in a few laps,” Crafar ana✤lysed.
“If he let Alex go, Alex had a horrible angle of approach so woul🧸d have gone slow through the turn or ran wide, and Pecco could have passed him on the inside of the next right-hander.”
Instead, Bagnaia left Ara🃏gon point-less and trailing championship leader Jorge Martin by 23 points.
T𓃲he ramifications continue into this weekend’s San Marino MotoGP.
Bagnaia is stil๊l at his physical optimum because he is still carrying knocks fr♛om Sunday’s incident.
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James was a sports j༒ournalist at Sky Sports for a decad🍸e covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.