Aleix Espargaro: Pedro Acosta ‘almost removed all the stickers off my fairing’

Aleix Espargaro was second fastest on day-one of the Qata𓆉r MotoGP as he led Aprilia’s charge behind Jorge Martin.

Aleix Espargaro, Qatar MotoGP test, 19 February
Aleix Espargaro, Qatar MotoGP test, 19 February

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Aleix Espargaro was one of the standout riders in the Qatar test as he backed up his potential by finishing just behind last season’s MotoGP runner-up.

Espargaro was outside the top ten for parts of FPꦍ1, but 🐭when lap times began to heat up so did the Spaniard.

Espargaro moved just ahead of Pedro Acosta, whom he had a close call wiꦫth on the run to turn one.

In a repeat of Fabio Di Giannantonio and Francesco Bagnaia’s moment during the grand prix last season, Espargaro got sucked in ꦦby the slipstream and nearly ran into Acos🌱ta.

Discussing the moment afterwards, E🌞spargaro said: “I was surprised. He almost removed all the stickers off my ﷽fairing on the straight.

“Then I didn’t have clean air and I couldn’t stop th♚e bike. We know which are🧜a we have to work.”

Regarding his performance, Espargaro was very happy with hi𓆏s dry running effort befor🗹e rain surprisingly fell in the evening.

“In the first practice it was quite good and the l💞ap times were quite de🉐cent and we did a good job,” added Espargaro.

“In the afternoon we were just cleaning the track. The rain and🌃 under the lights; there was nothing really important to understand.

“It was very strange. Hopefully it will not rain for the qualifying or 🐷the race.”

With dry track time limited, and a very busy schedule to follow on Saturday as the final practice will now count towards ꧋Q2 places, Espargaro said having a good fe💧eling was key.

Espargaro said: “[It was] Very important. In the first session in the dry it was very hot and I felt be🌠tter than in the test during day♕light.

“Hopefully tomorrow we can do 🦂a good job because practice three wil🐲l be very important to go through to the Q2.”

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