Aleix Espargaro reacts to “race ban” comment about Marc Marquez
When Marquez crashed into M🍃iguel Oliveira at the season-opening Portuguese MotoGP, he incurred a double long lap penalty which Espargaro furiously insisted was not enough.
But Marquez has been absent through injury ever since and, as he returns for the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:French MotoGP at Le Mans, his appeal against the rewording of his punishment has been successful meaning he will not face a double long lap penalty after ꦯall.
Espargaro, who i✤nitially demanded “to ban him for one race, minimum”, reacted at Le Mans to : “I do♌n't have much to say about that.
“A lot has already been written. It🐭's not something I'm very interested in.&n♈bsp;
“The mistake, that's obvious.
“The monum🅘ental 's**', was, that I still can't understand it, it was the wording of the sanctio🀅n.
๊“It is something that cannot happen even in the Third Regional, imagine in ꦛthe First Division of MotoGP.
“From here, I can have my opinion or not, but there 𒀰is nothing more to comment.”
Apr♒ilia rider Espa꧑rgaro has previously defended his initial demands for Marquez to be hit with a one-race ban.
He said earlier this week to : “It is no𝓡t to be critical of Marc but to be honest and face it. The others are behind.&n𝓰bsp;
“If it can happen to anyone? Yes, but how many times has it happ෴ened to him and how many to me or Pecco?”
And h⛄e clearly suggested that his fellow Mo🃏toGP riders are not critical enough of Marquez.
“There are many drivers, many, comp🌺laining that Takaaki Nakagami deserves a severe penalty, because he has had many repeated ones and there is no penalty,” Espargaro said.
“But thꦍere is no boom because Nakagami is not Marquez.
“Nakagami has ha💎d a hundred times more [criticism] than Marc, but it's not Marc and it doesn't come out everywhere.
“And with Marc it's like they don't dare.
“Why do we all dare with N🌳akagami and then we ask Fabio and Pecco about Marc and their answers are 'yeah, well..."
James🍷 was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
