Alex Marquez: Francesco Bagnaia "knew I was there” in Aragon MotoGP clash
Alex Marquez: “For me, if anyone could avoid that contact🌄 it was him, as ♊he knew I was there."
has explained that he didn’t see 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia attempting to overtake until it was too late, during Sunday’s Aragon MotoGP.
The pair dramatically clashed over third place when Marquez ran wide i𓂃nto Turn 12, with five laps to go.
Bagnaia, who had been catching the Gresini ride🦹r, pulled slightly ahead on the exit of the corner before their paths crossed at the apex of Turn 13.
Marquez, on t꧙he🤪 inside, ran out of room and clipped the back of the factory machine, sending both riders down and out in a heavy accident.
"I had returned to the line and was riding on the inside, my head was already straight and that's when I felt the contact and that the bღike was going straight,” Alex Marquez said in a press release by🧸 sponsor Estrella Galicia.
“I couldn't do anything, just try to see wher♓e the wall was, because we were heading straigಞht for it.
"Pecco can charge at me, or I can charge at him, but nothing is going toꦗ change the result.
"For me, if anyone could avoid that contact it was him, as he knew I was there. I think if he was so fast, he could have overtaken 🧸me at another moment.”
The FIM Stewards took no further action after ‘neither rider was determined to be predominantl൲y responsible for the incident’.
Speaking more in-depth to MotoGP.com, Marquez said: "Well, I'm fine. I have som🅷e impact on the left꧟ leg but nothing is broken.
“I was trying to make my𓆏 best race, trying to be really constant. I made some small mistakes like every💎body because the track was really slippery.
“Later on, we have the contact with Pecco. I went wide a little bit in Turn 12 and later on when I come back - I was notꦉ really out, I was quite on the line - I just go in to Turn 13 and I was not expecting him because I didn't see h❀im.
“I was on my side of the bike and we had that small contact thaꦫt made me pick up the bike and crashed together. I didn't see that anybody was coming. He closed a lot the line from the outside to the inside. And that's it. We end 💯the race there and I'm sad for both.”
Asked about the Stewards verdict, Marquez reiterated that he felt Bagnaia should have left more room: “I think it’s something🦩 that can happen in🌸 racing.
"If somebody could see that I was there, it was him. Because he was on the outside. If you come from the outside you cannot close the liꦉne, at least you need to leave one metre for the other rider on the inside.
“It’s a chang👍e direction that many times we saw these things a⭕nd that’s it. I'm sad because nothing will change what happened today.”
The accident means reigning c🐻hampion Bagnaia has now slipped 23 points behind title rival J🌊orge Martin, who finished second to Alex's brother and team-mate Marc Marquez on Sunday.
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