Catalan Grand Prix Barcelona MotoGP J.1 Aleix Espargaró: “Iannone always waits after a fast rider without ever looking behind him”

It’s a Aleix Espargaró disappointed and angry who is done with his Friday in Catalonia. Here he is only seventeenth, 1.4s behind leader Jorge Lorenzo and riding an Aprilia which does not keep the promises shown during the tests carried out on this same Montmelo track. What's more, he clashed with a certain Iannone, with whom he will have to share the box in 2019 and 2020.

An RS-GP which betrays him and a future teammate who is not at the moment his friend, it is nothing to say that the now father of two twin children had a dog afternoon at Barcelona. He explains, distraught: “ I expected to be much more competitive based on the tests carried out on this same circuit, but that was not the case. I was then riding in 1'39 and here I am with a 1'40.388. I have absolutely no grip when exiting a curve and no more stability when braking. ».

« I took the same bike and the same settings as during tests but the results were different to say the least. We don't understand. We have to analyze all of this. In addition we made a mistake in the tire strategy. I used the soft ones in the morning and was slow so that in the afternoon I had the hard ones left. It's very complicatede ".

Including on the track with his colleagues: “ Iannone always waits to get behind a fast rider and there it was Lorenzo. But when he does that, he never looks behind him. I was on a fast lap and I lost him because he was waiting for Lorenzo. We can do that, it doesn't worry me, but we still have to do it while taking care of others. I was very angry. When I wanted to pass it, I lost even more time because we both went out ».

Catalan Grand Prix Barcelona MotoGP J.1: Chronos FP2

1	99	Jorge Lorenzo	Ducati	1'38.930
2	29	Andrea Iannone	Suzuki	1'39.037	0.107	0.107
3	25	Maverick VIÑALES	Yamaha	1'39.422	0.492	0.385
4	4	Andrea Dovizioso	Ducati	1'39.443	0.513	0.021
5	35	Cal Crutchlow	Honda	1'39.458	0.528	0.015
6	9	Danilo PETRUCCI	Ducati	1'39.619	0.689	0.161
7	5	johann zarco	Yamaha	1'39.633	0.703	0.014
8	26	Dani PEDROSA	Honda	1'39.655	0.725	0.022
9	55	Hafiz Syahrin	Yamaha	1'39.782	0.852	0.127
10	53	Tito RABAT	Ducati	1'39.851	0.921	0.069
11	46	Valentino ROSSI	Yamaha	1'39.989	1.059	0.138
12	93	Marc Márquez	Honda	1'39.990	1.060	0.001
13	36	Mika Kallio	KTM	1'40.004	1.074	0.014
14	19	Alvaro BAUTISTA	Ducati	1'40.265	1.335	0.261
15	38	Bradley SMITH	KTM	1'40.309	1.379	0.044
16	42	Alex Rins	Suzuki	1'40.399	1.469	0.090
17	30	Takaaki NAKAGAMI	Honda	1'40.450	1.520	0.051
18	44	Pol Espargaró	KTM	1'40.508	1.578	0.058
19	41	Aleix Espargaro	Aprilia	1'40.541	1.611	0.033
20	43	Jack Miller	Ducati	1'40.608	1.678	0.067
21	10	Xavier SIMEON	Ducati	1'40.697	1.767	0.089
22	21	Frank MORBIDELLI	Honda	1'40.728	1.798	0.031
23	45	Scott REDDING	Aprilia	1'40.815	1.885	0.087
24	12	Thomas LUTHI	Honda	1'40.975	2.045	0.160
25	50	Sylvain GUINTOLI	Suzuki	1'41.229	2.299	0.254
26	17	Karel ABRAHAM	Ducati	1'41.361	2.431	0.132