Franco Morbidelli delivers honest reaction to punishment at Thai MotoGP

Franco 💜Morbidelli explains what happened in strange practice incident

Franco Morbidelli
Franco Morbidelli

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Franco Morbidelli has fronted up after he 🅠was punished🎉 for an incident in practice for the Thailand MotoGP.

VR46 rider Morbidelli has been 🅰hit with a three-place grid p꧒enalty for Sunday’s grand prix at Buriram.

Morbidelli was cruising on the racing line at Turn 5 and caused 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia to abandon his last shot to qualify for Q2.

T♚he VR46 rider, who was fifth on Friday overall, feels the penalty is fair but says he backed off becau🏅se others in front of him did the same after passing through the Turn 3 site where Marco Bezzechi has crashed.

Franco Morbidelli: Thai MotoGP penalty 'fair'

“Good day, but left with a bad taste in my mo𓄧unt because I got a penalty f🎉or the episode with Pecco,” Morbidelli said.

“So, both flavours: very sweet and very bitter.

“It was fair [the penalty].꧃ The episode, a dangerous episode actually happened with me even though there were many thing꧙s behind it.

“I was coming hot, I was coming red helmet [fastest sector] - actually big time red helmet - and when I arrived in Turn 3 there was still [Marco] Bezzecchi’s bꦍike, they were still picking up Bez’s bike.

“There were no yellow flags, but the two riders in front of me slowed down big time at Turn 4, and when I arrived in Turn 4 I saw them going slow - 𓆏seven and five seconds in tha🧸t sector slower than usual.

“So, I also slowed down. And when I slowed down I turned back and when I turned back 💙Pecco was coming straight away. And he didn’✱t slow down because that lap time was vital for him to go into Q2.

“So, that dangerous 🅰episode is with me because anything could have happened. I could have slowed down even more, maybe we could have touched. So, it’s a fair penalty.”

He added: “It’s going to be three grid positions for Sunday’s race, which forces us to a൩ttack big time for t🐷he first three positions for tomorrow’s qualifying. So, let’s see what we can do.”

Asked by if there should still have been a yellow flag waving, Morbidelli said: “Well, the danger was there but actually it was goin♕g away. It was on the limit, it was a 50/50 situation.

“10 seconds, five seconds sooner there would have still be y꧂ellow flags. Five seconds later, there would have been no yellow f🍷lags when we passed through.

“So, it was very much an on-the-limit situ🦩ation. It’s n🌞obody’s fault, it’s MotoGP.”

Quotes provided by Crash MotoGP Editor Peter McLaren

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