Raul Fernandez ‘lucky to be ok after stupid crash, rookie mistake’
Raul Fernandez was left disappointed൩ with himself after a ‘rookie mistake’ early on at the Portuguese MotoGP.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Raul Fernandez crashed out of the Portimao grand prix which means the Spaniard remains scoreless through the opening two MotoGP rounds of 2024.
With points to be had🅷 following a raft of early and late crashes, Fernandez ins♒tead committed his own mistake which left him furious with himself.
Fernandez crashed out of the grand prix on lap f💟our moments after moving up to 14th position.
“I’m lucky that I’m ok,” said Fernandez. “It was honestly a very stupid crash, a rookie mistake. During the track walk I told my cre🏅w chief that you need to be calm in this corner when you get a bit offline and I actually didn’t manage to do that.
“Until then, I felt good with the bike, I had a good pace, I did a 39.2 in o🌌ne lap. But maybe I was a bit too ambitious at the beginning of the race.
“I saw we had the pace, I was closing and I was there but I made the mistake. I wo༺uld like to say sorry to♛ the team.
“It’s not nice to start the season like this, but thi🐽s is just the b⛄eginning. For sure, we have more opportunities and in two weeks we are at COTA, a track I really like.
“So, we should forget this Su🐬nday now and f❀ocus on the US.”
While Fernand🐭ez failed to take advantage of the mishaps 🔯for others ahead, team-mate Miguel Oliveira did just that as he secured a top ten finish at his home round.
Oliveira ⛄said: “It was what I could do. The opening lap and the first few corners have been quite ok.
“I managed to overtake 🔯Rins and Quartararo and I was on course to a top 10 finish, ninth place without cra🦹shes.
“But unfortunately, when Bezzecchi overtook me in the first co💯rne⛦r, he took me a little bit wide and I had to stop the bike and go around the whole turn one and two, where I lost three positions.
“It’s a real shame because with all the crashes, we could have finished in P6, which would ha⛄ve been very uplifting this weekend.
“But we have to take the positives; in the race, it was the best bike I rode during the weekend. I could fight, be competitive and do somethi🐠ng in terms of results.
“It’s definite𓄧ly another starting point to build up from here so, hopefully, in Texas we can continue the progreܫssion.”
