This Grand Prix seemed as promised to Takaaki Nakagami. Performing in free practice, in rhythm during the warm-up, calm during FP4, the Japanese from the LCR team was sure of what he was doing. His time would come this Sunday at Honda. From the start, he honored his pole position, a first for this nationality since 2004, and he seemed from the outset to take this race on his own. An illusion that lasted five turns. While falling, Nakagami also fell from a height...
Takaaki Nakagami has perhaps never been so close to a resounding first MotoGP success for Japan and HRC. But everything moves very quickly in this category. After a few kilometers in the lead, the pilot LCR fell and buried in the gravels of Aragon his dreams of glory.
The Japanese had been the best rider in the MotoGP category so far throughout the weekend in Aragon, taking his first ever pole position and dominating free practice and qualifying. Unfortunately, the LCR Honda rider IDEMITSU crashed on the first lap of the Teruel Grand Prix.
The Japanese star was also fastest in Sunday's warm-up and had a superb start to the race at MotorLand Aragon as he took the lead on the straight and led into the opening corners. But while pushing to get away from the pack, Taka lost the front at turn five and slid. It was the first time in the 2020 season that the constant LCR man failed to finish a race in the top 10…
Nakagami apologizes
So, at the time of the assessments, it was inevitably a great disappointment which dominated the teammate of Cal Crutchlow which ends this tenth round of the eleventh season: “ tFirst of all, I want to say that I'm sorry to my entire team because this weekend all the sessions were very competitive and we were ready to get a great result on Sunday. But unfortunately, I made a small mistake in the first lap which was after the start and I am very disappointed to end up in the gravel » regrets the Japanese.
« Now I'm very disappointed with how it ended, but we'll try to be positive because all weekend we were very fast, which showed that our potential is there. Anyway, we will try to stay focused on our work in Valencia where there will also be two consecutive races. We will be strong and try to have a good weekend there and a big thank you to all my fans who support me » concludes the one who also came out of the top 5 of the general classification…
MotoGP Aragons-2 J3: classification
