Aleix Espargaro was forced to abandon today’s MotoGP long race due to a lack of strength in the foot of his left leg. The spaniard explained that he was in a lot of pain during the morning, but that wasn’t the reason for his premature end to the race, and recalled that yesterday, after the incident with Miguel Oliveira and Enea Bastianini, he immediately felt that something was wrong.
After six laps, the Aprilia Racing rider abandoned the main race of the weekend and admitted to the pain beforehand: ‘I have a very important fracture in my fibula, but the problem isn’t the fracture itself, it’s that everything is full of blood, the ligaments, the muscles, everything, it was like a compartimental feeling. I took a bomb of drugs to prevent the pain because this morning it was impossible to ride with so much pain’.
Even so, during the race itself, it wasn’t the pain that forced him to give up, as he explained afterwards: ‘During the race I didn’t have any pain, but I didn’t have any strength in my foot because everything was full of blood, my foot was completely blocked and I decided to stop because it was impossible to go up or down the gears’.
And he recalled the incident with the Portuguese CrytoDATA RNF MotoGP Team rider: ‘It’s a shame because I’ve felt very strong since Friday here and yesterday when Miguel hit me very hard in the leg I immediately realised that something was fractured. I’ll try again in Valencia if I can’.