MotoGP Silverstone: Marco Bezzecchi: Wet conditions “were a bit dangerous, aquaplaning on straights”

Marco Bezzecchi says this morning’s wet conditions during Practice 2 and MotoGP qualifying at Silverstone were very dangerous and that the sprint would have had to be delayed had it rained to the same extent.
Marco Bezzecchi, Ducati MotoGP Silverstone 2023
Marco Bezzecchi, Ducati MotoGP Silverstone 2023

With more rain forecast for the afternoo🉐n, it had looked as t𝔍hough the MotoGP sprint was going to be in danger of being delayed.

Heavy rain this morning meant riders had to tackle a very treacherous Silverstone circuit, one where aquaplanin𒉰g led to several crashes.

One of the riders to go down in a big way, and not for the first time this weekend, was Bezzecchi who went on to claim pole position d🙈espite falling in qualifying.

The Mooney VR46 Ducati rider then claimed P2 in the 10-lap s☂print, but was not totally convinced that this morning’s running was safe enough to go ahead.

"It was a bit dangerous to be honest," said Bezzecchi. "Not too much in the corners but in all the straights that this track has I was having a lot oꦚf aquaplaning and rear spin. 

"It was difficult to control because you are full gas and you cannot do ꦡanything. Also, where I crashed was a point where there was a lot of water. 

"In the qualifying, maybe it was okay. It was on the limit but okay. But if we had to start t♏he sprint like this then it was too dangerous because the view was not🗹hing."

Like Bezzecchi, world champion Francesco Bagnaia was a victim of the difficult conditions a🦹s Luca Marini and Alex Marqu♊ez also hit the deck.

Bagnaia crashed at turn fiveꦗ shortly after applying the brakes, which was a clear sign that the front-end of his machine could not handle the huge amounts of water on the♛ circuit.

Speaking after the sprint, Bagnaia said: "Already in the FP2 it was red flag [conditions]. In♛ a practice ses♚sion it is okay to let us go, but the spray and considering my crash I was already in the front and like Marco said, in a race you would go [down] with three or four riders. 

"It would have needed to🦩 be red flagged if it were these conditions in the race."

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