Emilia-Romagna MotoGP: Crash costs Nakagami, Marquez suffers technical issue

LCR Honda riders Takaaki Nakagami and Alex Marquez suffer contrasting issues within a lap of each other at the Emilia-Romagna MotoGP.
Alex Marquez, MotoGP race, Emilia-Romagna MotoGP 24 October 2021
Alex Marquez, MotoGP race, Emilia-Romagna MotoGP 24 October 2021
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A crash for Takaaki Nakagami and a technical iss🌳ue for Alex Marquez see LCR Honda leave Misano with just one point. 

After topping Sunday’s Emilia-Romagna MotoGP warm-up session - fifth time he’s done so this year, Takaaki Nakagami suffered a cra𓆏sh on lap seven of the 25 lapꦡ race.

The Japanese rider remounted before going on to finish 8🧸2 seconds📖 down on race winner Marc Marquez. 

Although Nakagami claimed a point in the end, it’s a fourth race in six witho🎃ut a top ten for the 29 year-old. 

"Unfortunately, before the start of the race I had some issues with the rear🌠 feeling of the bike and I knew it was going to be difficult," said Nakaga🅰mi.  

"I had a good start, but I as mentioned I had a bad ♔feeling on the rear and we don’t really know what happened. 

"We’ll look into it and hopefully can find out what happened in the﷽ race. But anyway, we got one point after rejoining the race, so it wasn’t the best day, but we have to look forward to th🐽e next race and keep pushing."

Worryingly for LCR Honda, Marquez also suffered from a ‘strange’ feeling with💯 the rear tyre, moments before a technical issue brought his race to an end. The two incidents came within a few corners of each oth🏅er. 

Marquez added: "Today was completely different conditions comp🦩ared to Friday and Saturday, but our set-up was reall🏅y good for the race. 

"We did a good job in the race, I was fe🅘eling good although t🍃he rear did feel a little strange from the beginning. 

"Then unfortunately I had an issue with the bike and I needed to stop as I saw it on my dashboard. That’s how it is, sometimes life is like this, but we still have two races to bu🎐ild up again and to keep collecting the data that we did this weekend. 

"As I said before this weekend, we have three races to build up confidence for next year, we now hꦺave two to get a good🍃 result."

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