MotoGP Styria J3 Aleix Espargaró is furious: “the stewards were probably watching the Olympic Games”

It was an Aleix Espargaró wound up like a clock who took stock of his Styrian Grand Prix which ended prematurely due to an engine failure. But before expressing his disappointment about his Aprilia, and this new missed opportunity to finally score a top 5, he first vented his anger on the commissioners who found nothing to complain about his pass. arms with a virile Marc Marquez. Twice, in two starts, he was pushed around by the Honda official. What to be angry about, indeed…

Aleix Espargaró arrived in this Styrian Grand Prix while regretting a Red Bull Ring to his still dangerous taste. This Sunday, he found other reasons to express his frustration and in particular through the overtaking maneuvers of a certain Marc Marquez. He says : " jI don't want to blame Márquez, it doesn't make sense, Marc is Marc, in every race he has overtaken like that for 10 years. Honestly I'm not very angry with him, he did something borderline, but Marc drives like that. The problem is that there must be someone with rules that penalizes these actions, but with Marc I'm not angry, I'll talk to him if I meet him, he already knows what he did, he knows perfectly well that he took a driver off the circuit ».

So the anger is for the commissioners: “ I blame the College of Commissioners, maybe they were watching the last day of the Olympics, it's hard to understand. Marc decided to do these actions in the middle of the race, everyone is free to do what they want, and it is the College of Stewards who must sanction. There was no room, especially in the first start where he hit me hard on the arm and I had to go off the track, and in the second he did the same thing again ».

Aleix Espargaró don’t stop there: “ what annoys me is that they sanction when a driver causes another to crash, but what they have to sanction is the action, regardless of the result. If today I had hit Rins we would have both fallen, then they would have given him a big sanction, but since no one fell, there is no sanction. Why is the College of Commissioners doing this? It's crazy ».

Rossi agreed with Aleix Espargaró

He finishes the suit tailored to the officials thus: “ honestly, I don't want to talk about the College of Commissioners anymore, I don't understand anything about their work. There is no communication between the pilots and the Panel of commissioners, all the pilots complain about it in the safety commission meetings, but they do not appear and we cannot speak to them, we do not understand sanctions are frustrating, It's a war you can't win ».

We will recall the comment of Valentino Rossi regarding these two racing incidents: “ Marc Marquez is always very aggressive with everyone. Today it was Aleix Espargarò's turn, at other times there were others. I don't know what to say or do to improve the situation ».

It remains that if Aleix Espargaró gave up, it's because his RS-GP died. But he doesn't forget Aprilia : " what annoys me the most is not finishing the race because of an engine failure » he said. “ We had the pace to fight for the top 5, my concern for next weekend is to resolve the engine problem to have a good engine to fight with, this is the second race in which we lost the top 5 due to a mechanical failure. It had already happened at Le Mans. I was fighting for the top 6 in the championship, but now, honestly, I see it very difficult. »

He finishes : " a factory cannot have technical problems during the race, impossible. This hasn't happened for a long time and it can't happen, it's not the first time this has happened to us. It was a serious problem, the engine is broken ". Close the ban!

MotoGP Styria J3: classification

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