Aleix Espargaro reacts to “race ban” comment about Marc Marquez
When Marquez crashed into Miguel Oliveira at the season-opening Portuguese MotoGP, he incurred a double long lap penal🍰ty which Espargaro furiously insisted was not 🏅enough.
But Marquez has been absent through injury ever since and, as he returns for the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:French MotoGP at Le Mans, his appeal against the rewording of his punishment has been💮 successful meaning he will not face a double long lap penalty after al♓l.
Espargaro, who initially demanded “to ban him for one race, minimum”,🐲 reacted at Le Mans to : “I don't have much to say about that.
“A lot has 🅺already been written. It's not something I'm very interested in.
“The mistake, that's obvious.
“The monumental 's**', was, that I still can't understand it, ꦉit was the wording of the sanctio𒆙n.
“It is s🍸omething that cannot happen even in the Third Regional, imagine in the First Division of MotoGP.
“From here, I can have my opini🍒on or not🐎, but there is nothing more to comment.”
Aprilia rider Espargaro has previously defended his initial deman🤪ds for Marquez to be hit with a one-r▨ace ban.
He said earlier this week to : “It is not to be critical of Marc but to beꦐ honest and🍃 face it. The others are behind.
“If it can happen to anyone? Yes, but how many times has it happened to him and how many 🦋to me or Pecco?”
And he clearly suggested that his fellow MotoGP riders are not critical enough o🎃f Marquez.
“There are many drivers, many, complaining that Takaaki Nakagami deserves a severe p🌠enalty, because he has had many repeated ones♑ and there is no penalty,” Espargaro said.
“But there is no boom beca൩use Nakagami is not Marquez.
“Nakagami has had a hundred times more [criticism] 💞than Marc, but it's not Marc and it doesn't come 🐼out everywhere.
“And with Marc it's like they don't dare.
“Why do we all dare with Nakagami and then we ask Fabio and Pecco about Marc🥃 and their answers are 'yeah, well..."
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything frꦓom American sports, to football, to F1.
