At the end of the second Moto3 free practice session, Alexis Masbou received a sanction of three places on the grid from the FIM Stewards.
We went to question him about the reasons which led to this penalty.
Alexis Masbou: “There were two things. There was a clash with Locatelli at the start of the session. He crashed into me and fell because I was in neutral due to the gearbox problems that we regularly have.
Then leaving the pits, with a long gear so more slowly, when I turned around I didn't see that there was a group arriving and who were at full throttle. It was a mistake on my part and it is normal that I receive a sanction. If someone had done that to me, I wouldn't have been happy. In the end, we were lucky that there wasn't a fall, because otherwise it wouldn't have been funny at all, neither for me nor for them. »
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