MotoGP Misano: Fabio Quartararo out to benefit from Francesco Bagnaia's penalty, hopes Marc Marquez can fight ‘red bikes’
Bagnaia, who arrives home on the back of a three-race win streak, will be forced to start Sunday’s race three place🍌s🔴 below his qualifying position, as punishment for slowing down in the middle of the track during FP1.
The Italian had mist🔯akenly thought the session was over, forcing Alex Marquez and Enea Bastianini to take evasive action.
Bagnaia admitted his error and ‘totally agreed’ wiꦇth the penal༺ty handed down by the FIM Stewards.
With memories still fresh of the controversial long lap penalty handed to Quartara🍬ro for an accident with Aleix Espargaro at Assen, the Frenchman said of Bag🎶naia's three-place penalty:
“ജWe were joking with my ꦕfriends that if it happened to me, I’d have [been given] three years in jail!”
On a more serious no𓄧te, given Bagnaia and Ducati’s current form, Quartararo knows he must try and take full advantage of the grid penalty.
“We h🔜ave to use it [to our advantage] because, in the end, we need to take the benefit from everything," said Quartararo, who starts the weekend 32 points clear of Aleix Espargaro and 44 ahead of man-of-the-moment Bagnaia.
"Of course, it’s a shame for him, but we ♌think for us, so we will need to take the benefit from this and try to make our best.”
The reigning world champion finished Friday practice in fifth place behind the Ducatis of Enea Bastianini, Bagnaia, Jack Miller and Johan꧋n Zarco.
But Quartararo overcame a similar level of Ducati practice dominance 🔜to finish second in Austria and is again confident in his race pace.
“Today in the pace we were super fast,” he said.
Quartararo: I hope Marc can fight against the red bikes
Quartararo has been the only rider on a Japanese bike able to offer any resistance to Ducati in recent rounds, but that could soon change with the news that 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:🐭Marc Marquez will make a MotoG💛P comeback at next week’s Misano test.
If all goes well, the in🍸jured eight-time world champion might then make a race return at Aragon.
“I hope he can be fighting with us pretty soon and try to destroy a little b🀅it, the plan of the red bikes,” Quartararo said. “But yeah, it’s great that he co♐mes back.
"For sure he has had some positive feedback from his [arm] and shoulder at the [Aragon] test. So now he will come here for two days and then everybody [will hꦬave] a clear idea about his pote♚ntial for the future races.”
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino R꧟ossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the ꦆSuzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
