Oscar Haro, former sporting director of LCR Honda, defends Marc Marquez after his accident during the first MotoGP race of the season at Portimao.
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The first round of the MotoGP championship brought Marc Marquez under the projectors. Not so much for the pole position and the podium on Saturday as for the bad maneuver on the third lap of the Sunday race. The paddock is moved by the sanction defined by many as too light and the RNF team published an official press release asking the FIM College for more dissuasive sanctions for the future. There is discontent which will still be present next weekend in Argentina.
The former sporting director of LCR Honda, Oscar Haro, a examiné le Grand Prix du Portugal de manière “transversale” avec Nico Abad et Diego Lacave sur la désormais célèbre chaîne Twitch. Notamment, les plaintes de pilotes comme Aleix Espargaró ou George Martin regarding the incident between Marc Marquez et Miguel Oliveira during the third lap of turn 3. The driver Aprilia had mentioned a disqualification from a Grand Prix for the Repsol Honda champion. “ Marc's accident seems very serious to me, Oliveira's knee could have exploded, it was a brutal shock. They should sanction him with a suspension race, the long double turn seems ridiculous to me » he said.
« Marc Marquez collided with an opponent (Oliveira) and apologized, that's enough »
The eight-time world champion did not respond to comments from his MotoGP colleagues, but Oscar Haro, great admirer of Marquez, did it. “ Mr. Aleix Espargaró plays chess, but it’s motorcycle racing. Play chess and no one will put you down! It's a contact sport. If you see the AMA Super Cross Super race you cry, when you fall a motorcycle crushes you. It's Motocross and it's MotoGP, otherwise we'll take short train trips, we'll all line our pockets, win millions of euros and we'll all be happy ».
Oscar Haro defends Marc Marquez, currently forced to push hard to make up for the technical delay of Ducati et Aprilia. " He is fighting to win the world championship and he made a mistake because his bike got away from him. He hit an opponent (Oliveira) and apologized, that's enough ". According to him, the Cervera champion also has the merit of having given us topics for discussion… “ Thanks to drivers like Marc Marquez, today we have something to talk about. If he wasn't there, what would we have been talking about today, the Bagnaia race, the 2 KTMs fighting for 18 laps, Alex Marquez who passed in front of the KTMs and didn't get on the podium »...
The former sports director of the LCR also responds to the grievances of George Martin, injured the big toe of the right foot. “ If you prefer to have a driver in front you will never be world champion, you will be vice-champion for life ».
