2023-09-23 17:19:16
Catastrophic day for Aleix Espargaró. The official Aprilia rider did not start well in the qualifiers, when he starred in what is probably one of the images of the Indian Grand Prix. The Catalan left his box before anyone else to start Q2 without knowing that the organization had delayed the start of the session due to problems on the track; #41 had to turn around and return back to his garage helped by his mechanics, and when he entered the pit He shouted a loud rant at the Aprilia staff for not having been attentive to the modification of the schedule.
Then in the sprint race things were not better, far from it. In the seventh lap he ended up on the ground with no option to return to the race. And before he crashed, the pilot witnessed the incident between Marini and Bezzecchi that ended up pissing the pilot off even more.
“It was a terrible day, I should have stayed in bed“, the Spanish pilot began by saying. “I didn’t feel comfortable on pole and only got a tenth place”. The most notable part of his statements were his apologies for the incident that occurred in that same session: “I was slow to react to my team’s mistake, I think I exaggerated because of the way I behaved. I made a mistake and apologized to the team“, be sincere.
WHAT A PISSED ALEIX! ????????????@AleixEspargaro He went out to be the first to ride in Q2, but the starting time was delayed and he had to return to the box… ???? His gestures and voices say it all ????#IndianGP ???????? #MotoGP ???? pic.twitter.com/J9v5xeiX4j
— DAZN Spain (@DAZN_ES) September 23, 2023
Espargaró stressed that “In the end it is nothing serious, the important thing is to try to avoid errors of this type, both in the cooling of the engine and in the tires“, and confesses that his attitude was not correct: “I think I reacted badly. Everything could have influenced the classification, but I was not focused as I should have.”
After the warm-up and after the apologies, Espargaró acknowledged that “We have to try to prevent the mistakes that were made before qualifying, because we can ruin the engine“and he only thinks about”go to sleep“after a disastrous day.
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The sprint was not better, far from it. Already during the race the Aprilia was “witness of the accident between Marini and Bezzecchi, which slowed me down, and in an attempt to recover in the following laps I slipped and ended up on the ground”. Regarding this, he has said that “The solution is very simple, I always repeat it in the security commission: we need stronger sanctions at the exit“said the Catalan driver about how to solve the repetitive problems at the start of the race.
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