MotoGP France J2, recevant des boulets rouges de Ducati, Marc Marquez répond : “on fait des courses, pas de la danse”

Marc Marquez has been in Pecco Bagnaia's sights and in Ducati's sights since the famous Friday at Le Mans when the Honda official sought the slipstream of the World Champion for his time. And then the eight-time winner who is making his return to this French Grand Prix annoyed us with comments that were perhaps too honest. Again this Saturday at the end of the Sprint race, Pecco Bagnaia complained about his aggressiveness. After being criticized, Marc Marquez responded…

To fully understand the context, we must recall the words of Marc Marquez on Friday evening at Le Mans: “ after what I've been through, what do you want it to be? When I get on the bike, I always give my best ". And he added: “ at the end of FP2 I was eighth when I went into the straight, so I pushed to try to improve the access time to Q2, knowing that if I fell there would be a yellow flag and the others would not be able to improve ". And he also swore, despite the images seen, that he never intended to look for the wake of Pecco Bagnaia...

The same Pecco Bagnaia with whom he was in a duel during a good part of the race Sprint. The Ducati rider mentioned at the finish: “ Marc passed me very aggressively. A lot of time was wasted in the process. We touched and I lost two positions ". A racing fact that Davide Tardozzi, the Ducati Corse team manager thus assessed: “ decisive but correct overtaking by Marquez. . Just like Bagnaia passing Miller last time ».

Marc Marquez: “ we never stop talking about penalties »

In fact, these may be the FIM stewards who are addressed here, more than Marc Marquez himself, who responds on Sky Sport MotoGP : " I said everything clearly in the security committee yesterday. In my opinion, the accidents that happened this year were all racing incidents, except mine at Portimao. This should be penalized. We are MotoGP, these are the races. Nothing happened today. I overtook, Pecco closed… I can't overtake on the straight, so I have to wait for the corners. For me the speech is clear, I said it yesterday. It's MotoGP, we don't dance ».

The Repsol Honda team driver also shined his light on the FIM and Dorna, responsible for having to dictate the line to adopt and above all to enforce it: “ It is not us, the pilots, who decide what to do. It has to be the FIM and Dorna who determine which direction they want to take, whether they just want clear overtaking or whether they are more permissive. They should be the ones to make a decision. ».

The eight-time World Champion makes it clear which approach he would prefer in MotoGP: “ in my opinion everything needs to be more permissive, because if they start giving so many different penalties and doing so many other things, that we never stop talking about penalties. We are here to talk about MotoGP competition ».

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