Marc Marquez hits back at Aleix Espargaro at French MotoGP? “Talk bull****, next race it can happen to you”
Aprilia rider Espargaro reacted to Marquez’♍s crash in the season-opening Portuguese MotoGP by demanding a one-race ban then, this week, he insisted these𒅌 incidents happened more frequently to Marquez and questioned why other riders do not call him out.
Repsol Honda rider Marquez returns from hand surgery for this weekend’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:French MotoGP and, without naming Espargaro directly, replied to criticism of his crash into Miguel Oliveira 🐟at Portimao.
He was🎀 asked if his rivals might not be so pleased to welcome him back, andಞ replied: “We’ll see. We saw already. Nobody can speak a lot.
“If you talk bulls*** about a r🦹ider, then in the next race it can happen to you.
“Nobody crashes because they want to crash into another one, nobody 🌟🃏attacks without thinking.
“But we ride on the limit and sometimes ꦫwe make mistakes.
“Sometimes you make a mistake alone, sometimes a m🤡istake and somebody is outside the lin📖e.
“There are different situations. In 15 years, there will be s🐭ituations.
“If you ride ꧒at the limit and at the fr💖ont, you will have different situations.
“So, of course, evꦦerybody wants to finish the race and be on the podium.
“Nobody wants to be injured. We cannot choose.
“I received a penalt🐼y but I did the penalty at the Argentina GP, this is what I wrote on the paper.”
Espargaro had refuse﷽d to back down from his original calls for Marquez to face a “one-race ban, minimum”, by telling : “It is not to be critical of Marc but to be hon🌺est and face it.
"How many touches has Marc had and how many have🙈 the o𝓰ther 20 riders combined?
“Ifཧ it can happen to anyone? Yes, but how many times has it happened to him and how many to me or Pecco?”
Marquez: “I don’t feel fear - sometimes a weak point”
Jorge Lorenzo had claimed that Marquez is💧🔥 unique on the 2023 MotoGP grid by being immune to fear.
The Honda star reacted: “I do൩n’t feel fear. This is sometimes a weak point, sometimes a strong point▨. I try to use experience.
“In this comeback, I try to use expꩵerience wit♎h my arm.
“Not to be conservative or to hౠave a d🐻ifferent mentality.
“🌟I had three medical teams, with three opinions, and shared those opinions.
“My mentality? My DNA is the same. If I race here, ♎it is to attack. Not✃ to defend.”
Marquez, the six-time MotoGP champion, arrives in Le Mans 80 points behind champio💧nship-leader France📖sco Bagnaia.
Ja෴mes was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering𝓰 everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
