2023-11-19 22:43:55
It seems that the incident between Franco Morbidelli and Aleix Espargaró is not over. The dispute on the track that ended with a slap from the Spaniard to the Italian-Brazilian continues to rage; The exchange of statements between the drivers is alive, and the last to return the ball has been himself. Espargaró, who has responded to Yamaha for his latest statements.
Some statements that he did not like at all, and that had a high critical component on Franco’s part. Not only did he tell him that “I wanted to see him at 100 meters“, what “has many more episodes to be ashamed of than to be proud of”, but it also involved the children of the Aprilia rider: “I wonder what he will tell his children”. And that has struck a chord with the Spanish.
In the first statement issued by Espargaró through social networks, he accepted that he was wrong: “I had a very bad reaction, I lost my temper in an excessive way.“, He dares. Today in his counterattack he has once again ratified his version: “My version does not change. Obviously I was wrong, and my exit was disastrous. But I can assure you that I didn’t mean to hit him in the helmet, I just wanted to push him away.”, he argues now.
One action per which the FIM has punished the man from Granollers with a 10,000 euro financial fine and six penalty positions in Sunday’s race. A race that he had to abandon due to pain after a fracture resulting from a serious accident with three other drivers in the Saturday Sprint Race.
“If you only see the final part of the sequence, I deserve that sanction and it is very ugly“, accepts Espargaró, who does not leave his justification there, and continues: “But it’s unfair because Franco has been around the circuits for a year and a half, and in every race he bothers one or the other.”.
Aleix criticizes that Franco Morbidelli “last week he called Marc’s dog with his hand“, and although he believes that “I was very wrong in my reaction, it is not worth looking only at the last part of the sequence”, he confesses.
The icing on the cake was the part in which Morbidelli brought the Spaniard’s children into the equation. He spread out, on the counterattack: “What bothered me a lot is that he included my family and my children in his statements. There he crossed a very sacred line; that won’t stay like that”, he dropped.
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A separate issue is the injury he is suffering now. Aprilia has already confirmed that she suffers from a “small fracture in the head of the fibula” of his left leg that prevented him from finishing the race. In fact, he had to retire a few laps before the start of the Sunday race. Despite this, the oldest of the brothers does not give up and does not want to end the season before testing himself in Cheste: “I’m going to try, I’ll do my best. The crack in the fibula is severe, but the problem is inflammation. “The nerves are full of blood”.
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