168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Aleix Espargaro finished his final flyaway race as an Aprilia MotoGP rider in 13th as the RS-GP’s heat is🍌🌠sues resurfaced at Sepang.

After last year’s Thai round, where team-mate Mav𓆉erick Vinales was forced to retire due to the roasting heat and Es💝pargaro “couldn’t breathe”, the factory pledged to improve the ventilation.

Bu꧃t while this year's Buriram rain ‘solved’ the Thai Grand Prix temperatures, the a baking 34-degree Sepang took its toll on Espargaro and his all-black bike.

Starting 16th, the Spaniard climbed to twelfth by mid-distance, before losing a place to the recovering Marc Marquez on the final🀅 lap

“Extremely difficult for us and even more when you start that far on the grid. It was really a nightm💧are!” Esparga🍸ro said.

“I could not overtake anybody and the engine was very slow due 🧔to the heat.

“I suffered a lot. In the last three laps, I almost couldn’t make it until the end. I couldn’t even handle th♋e handlebar, it was amazing the heat.”

Espa🌠rgaro claimed no significant improvement has been made to reduc🀅e the heat since last year.

“Not at all, it’s even♛ worse when you are at the back of the grid," Espargaro said.

"This morning, I felt strong in the warm-up, but at 🃏the start it was impossible to recover places. No way to overtake. The bike was very, very slow.”

A quick-restart proced🧸ure, f🎃ollowing the red flag, was cited by some riders as contributing to the heat emitted by the bikes in the early laps.

Espa꧒rgar🔴o's front tyre pressure also soared in the dirty air.

“I started very, ver🐭y low and on the last three laps I could not even brake because of the [tyre] temperature," he said.

Raul Fernandez: “I was done”

Espargaro wasn’t🔴 the only Aprilia rider to fear he might not see the chequered flag.

An exhausted 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Raul Fernandez faded from 13t🙈h to 16th as he backed off 🍌dramatically in the closing laps.

“I was very close to [retiring],” confirmed the Trackhouse rider. “It was super difficult to manage with the tempera🍬ture on the bike.

“The last four laps I was done. I tried to🉐 finish the race out of respect to the team ꦦand all my mechanics.

“I was🔯 with the group. I couldn’t overtake… But the last four laps, I couldn’t lie on the bike!

“I was all the straight with my head out of the bike to take some air. But it's really dꦉifficult especially when you 🏅have a slipstream, you don't take air. So you cannot [cool] the body a little bit.

“I don't feel the hand. I don't f𓂃eel the foot. I couldn't take♉ air. It was everything.”

Espa🔜rgaro’s factory team-mate Ma🎉verick Vinales finished as the top Aprilia in seventh place.

Vinales de💫scribed the heat levels on S𝔍unday “as usual, hot and hard, but I could finish with a good rhythm”.

However, Fernandez explained𓆉 that Vinales had been riding in clear air, several seconds behind Fabio Quartararo.

“I think 🍌Maverick did a good start and all the race without a slipstream. S🔯o he was alone,” Fernandez said. “Maybe for that reason he did more or less the [normal] race.

“But in my case and Aleix, we were in the same group. I had four slipstreams, four bikes in front of me all the race and he h💮ad three.

“I didn't expect something like this here. It was maybe like Thailand last year [or] a little bit wo🦹rse.”

Fernandez is the only MotoGP rider remaining with Aprilia in 2025 with Espargaro switching to Honda testing duties, Vinales joining Tec🅺h3 KTM ꦡand injured Trackhouse team-mate Miguel Oliveira moving to Pramac Yamaha.

Lorenzo Savadori, riding in place of the injured Oliveira 𝄹at Sepang, finished in last place.

Fortunately for the Aprilias, overheatಞing won't be a problem at the 2024 season finale, now scheduled for Barcelona💧 in two weeks.