Jake Dixon rival Alonso Lopez blasted: “Wild riding from someone with a bad reputation”
There were three incidents between Lopez and Dixon at the Buddh Circuit, culminating in the Spaniard clattering into th👍e Brit and sending him into the gravel.
Dixon rejoined but rꦫetired early, a🤪nd saw title rival Pedro Acosta win the race.
Dixon r🌌evealed t🌸hat Lopez chose not to apologise: “No, I’ve not seen him. My room was next door to him so he had every opportunity.”
Dixon avoided any urge to criticise his rival, like he did with Darryn Binder earlier this season: “You live and learn from situations. I learned from the last situation wheꩵn something like this h🍷appened, how to move on and grow as a person.”
🌃But Neil Hodgson was le🐼ft fuming by Lopez’s move, telling TNT Sports: “It was really poor, wild riding from someone with a bad reputation in this paddock for doing silly moves.
“He gets a mediocre start. He’s on the inside, he’s ▨got one ꦦplan and that’s to brake after everyone else.
“He’s goꦗing so fast that he misses the corner completely. Tha✨nkfully he doesn’t take anyone down.
“It’s a wild move. Hopefully he learned from th💦at.
“T🍌here’s a restart. You think maybe he won’t be a♈s rash!
“His plan is to brake after everybody else. He almost w🅺ipes Jake out.
“If Jake had been wiped out there, in front of the whole🌊 pack? Well, I don’t even want to think.
“It was a violent move.
“The issue then? Jake is behind him, passes him, g🍷oes wide. So ℱthere’s room to pass, you know where Jake is.
“Lopez is so aggr🅠essiv𓄧e and rides through Jake. Knocks him flying.
“It’s not the first 💜time. In Mugello🤪 he did it to Sam Lowes, knocked him flying.”
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a ♐decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
