Australian Grand Prix Phillip Island MotoGP J.3: When Johann Zarco apologizes to Marc Marquez… (video)

Summarized in his tweet “We were very lucky today, physically, we are both fine. Johann came to apologize, a great gesture on his part. It's part of the race! ", Marc Marquez's position was also developed by the very recent five-time MotoGP world champion.

“I felt a violent impact from behind. When I was on the bike, I didn't even know what was happening. To be honest, at first I was quite upset because I felt like someone had hit me on the back. I couldn't continue because my saddle was totally broken and constantly moving. Of course, I couldn't continue like this. When I got to the box and saw the video, I knew what happened. It was a racing accident, because at this part of the track we are very fast. I was in Miller's wake and, at this point, we exceeded 300 km/h. I braked late and Johann had the wake of both bikes. You can say the incident needs to be investigated, but in my eyes it was a racing incident. I was very lucky today because we are both doing well and that's the most important thing. In Sepang everything will be fine, I have already spoken to Johann and there is no problem.”

Johann zarco, for his part, gives his version…

“It was of course an accident. We were going so fast and there wasn't much room on the left side. Marc was close to Jack and he came back on the line to take turn 1. But I was also there, so I crashed. I went to see him, just to apologize because I completely destroyed the back of his bike. And he told me not to worry, and that the most important thing was that I didn't get hurt. As two athletes and competitors, we understand each other completely.”

In short, yesterday at Phillip Island was a simple racing incident between two drivers who know how to take a step back and respect each other, thus avoiding any sterile controversy.

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The Tech3 driver then recovered from his emotions by playing a little piano before heading to Sepang…