Argentina MotoGP: Espargaro: Petrucci hit me harder than Marquez
Aleix Espargaro was 🌳the first rider to be barg🐠ed by Marc Marquez, during a chaotic Argentina MotoGP race for the reigning champion.
The Repsol Honda star, who was fighting back through the field after a ride-through penalty for refusing 🥂to leave the grid after stalꦦling and then restarting his RCV, turfed the Aprilia rider out of 18th place at the penultimate Turn 13.
That same corn♔er would be the scene of an even more dramatic incident late in the race, when Marquez slammed into Valentino Rossi, who then fell on the wet grass.
Aleix Espargaro was the✱ first rider to be🐼 barged by Marc Marquez, during a chaotic Argentina MotoGP race for the reigning champion.
The Repsol Honda star, who was fighting back through the field after a ride-through penalty for refusing to leave the grid after stalling 🐟and then restarting his RCV, turfed the Aprilia rider out of 18th place at the penultimate Turn 13.
That same corner would be the scene of an even more dramatic incident late in ⭕the race, when Marquez slammed into Valentino Rossi, who the✨n fell on the wet grass.
Asked about the incident with Marquez, 🌜Espargaro re♒vealed he had been hit even harder by Danilo Petrucci and felt the Italian should also have been penalised.
Marquez barges Espargaro out of the way
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"He [Marquez] hit me ver🃏y, very hard. But Petrucci did exactly the same to me, in Turn 2. The same or even harder.
"So the IR🎐TA people need to pay attention because it's not fair that M෴arc has been penalised but not Petrucci, who hit me harder.
"It's a race contact, he [Marquez] has to be careful obviously because he cannot be that ⭕in the limit, but this is racing."
Marquez, who crossed the finish line in fifth place, received a 30-second post-race penalty for the incident with Rossi, leav𒁏ing him 18th.
Espargaro retired due to a technical problem.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is 💜at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
