In the type of incident which opposed Andrea Iannone and Jorge Lorenzo during the last Catalan Grand Prix, it often seems urgent to wait until the hot reactions fade and the pressure goes down.
This is what he did Charles Pernat who, although manager of the Italian driver, spoke on Radio 24 with hindsight brought by decades of experience...
Charles Pernat: “Iannone is a truly enormous talent, but the problem is that he grew up in a team that functioned like a clan, without answering to anyone and always blaming others. On the other hand, this year we made various mistakes. The episode in Argentina was a total disaster. Bringing down your teammate in the last curve when you are second and third, not even if someone gives me a million euros, is not acceptable.
Regarding Sunday's incident, it's not that I'm defending the indefensible, but we learned, when we went to check Yamaha's data, that there was a deceleration of 200 meters. Iannone was unable to understand this deceleration, and I wouldn't know how to say, but in a race it can happen. Anyway, I told him a thousand times: you had to stay behind, Lorenzo had a lot of problems, and sooner or later, one way or another, you would have ended up overtaking him. »
