Aleix Espargaró in debrief was confronted with the incident that occurred on Saturday between the Spanish rider and Franco Morbidelli of Monster Energy Yamaha MotoGP, resulting in a penalty of six grid positions lost.
– ‘ I apologize and I am ashamed of my actions, obviously I accept the responsibility and the blame, my intention was not to overtake him, but just to let him go. For me it is not fair to draw conclusions from the last 5 seconds of what happened. Franco has been going around for a year now and has no respect for anyone, in the last race he was with his teammate and did not receive a penalty, then with Marc, he called him a dog, and finally he came at me three times when I was trying to get back on track and he wouldn’t let me, three times. Anyway, I reacted badly and should not have done what I did, but I don’t think it’s fair to judge the last 5 seconds of what happened. The worst thing for me was that in the end he came and spoke badly about my family and my children, I am very upset’.
The Aprilia Racing rider came into this weekend with high expectations and wanted to achieve a positive result, unfortunately during the Qatar GP, Aleix Espargaró had a racing incident with Miguel Oliveira in the Sprint that left him physically limited and ended up retiring from the race on Sunday.
