The first MotoGP season of reigning Moto2 World Champion Bastianini is decidedly special. These offbeat racing facts show it. Thus, Zarco's percussion at the end of the warm-up lap on the starting grid was followed in Austria by a serious stripping of his GP19 in the middle of the race, which pushed him to a depressing abandonment. Because before that, the Avintia driver had shown a particularly interesting race pace…
The weekend of Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring ended with a strange retirement in the race for Enea Bastianini. After an excellent start during which he managed to recover several positions until asserting himself as a serious contender for the top 10, he had to abandon the competition prematurely due to a fairing attachment problem, the side of which left flew off at the exit of the first turn…
The Italian was only able to do three laps, in the times of the leaders, so that in view of the events which followed with the twists and turns that we know and the final fifth place of his teammate Marini, he was rather bitter when it came time to take stock… “ Honestly I'm sad. The fairing came off and I had to abandon it. It's a real shame because we had a good weekend and I was climbing well towards the leading group, but something happened that I could never have predicted ", said the team driver Ducati Avintia.
Bastianini assures that he would have entertained us
« I'm sorry because I know I would have entertained you, but right now I'm speechless », Bitterly concludes the 2 Moto2020 world champion, who leaves the Austrian track with good sensations but with a particularly bitter ending. “ I am sure that I could have maintained an excellent pace throughout the race because in any case I was very consistent in FP4 and in the warm up. I'm sorry, I hope the next races go better. I don't know what could have happened but it had already happened. It's a shame, especially in a race where I could have obtained a very good result ».
MotoGP Austria J3: classification
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