The first race of the year ended with Aleix Espargaró in third place and at the end of the race the Aprilia Spaniard couldn’t hide his smile. Although he admitted to some problems with his bike, overall the feeling was one of happiness and the prospect that he could do even better tomorrow.
A. Espargaró was all smiles at the end of the race and didn’t hide his delight at his first reaction in parc ferme:
– I tried my best sincerely but I lost a lot of time with overtaking. Unfortunately we need to improve on the straights because it’s easy for others to overtake me, but the speed we managed to have on the circuit is fantastic. I’m very happy, the level of the bike is very high and I think in the long race we’ll have better cards because we’ve saved the rear tyre a lot, so I’m very happy.