[People]: Aleix Espargaró forced to apologize for comments made in a video

It was a bitter experience for Aleix Espargaró, who is to this day the only driver officially known to the manufacturer. Aprilia in MotoGP. With a friend and returning from cycling training, he sent a video to an acquaintance to joke a little about his existence and his situation. The unfortunate thing is that this approach, which should have remained private, ended up on the web, provoking the ire of Internet users. The consequences were as quick as they were brutal: a sponsor expressed his dissatisfaction and Aleix Espargaró had to make a public apology...

Being a public man is a status that must be assumed, especially nowadays when the means of communication make it possible to spy on all the facts and gestures by broadcasting them instantly for the whole world to see. Aleix Espargaró realized it with this video WhatsApp sent to what he thought was a friend. Returning from one of his countless cycling trips and accompanied by Purito Rodriguez, a former professional cyclist and great friend of Aleix, he sent this message:

« Juani, excuse me. We are doing calculations and I don't understand... we realized that we earn much more than you with fewer work days than you have vacation ". We don't know how, but this message arrived on the web. And Internet users went wild. A sponsor common to the two men issued a press release dissociating itself from the comments made by Aleix. The latter, faced with the extent of the criticism, had to make his act of contrition.

Aleix Espargaró regrets comments taken out of context

« It was just a joke between friends » declared the Spaniard. “ Even when I say I don't work it's a joke, anyone who knows me knows I'm the hardest worker in the world. I train all day to do what I do well and it was just a joke between friends on WhatsApp. In my opinion, it is unfair that a private video is viewed online like this, that people see it without knowing the full surrounding context. This is my opinion, but I wanted to apologize to anyone who felt offended ».

We will perhaps never know how this private message ended up on the networks, but what appears is that these champions must definitely keep it from everyone and everything, including their “friends”. After that, we should not be surprised to see robot pilots "so much regretted by Cal Crutchlow. Who, however, says what he has to say to his face.