Enea Bastianini won the MotoGP Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix this Sunday, but to secure the victory, he made a controversial overtake on Jorge Martín (Prima Pramac/Ducati) on the last lap.
The episode took place at turn 4 of the Misano circuit. The Ducati rider was aggressive in his maneuver, forcing Martín to run wide to avoid contact, with Bastianini himself going slightly beyond the kerb.
In the post-race press conference, the #23 admitted that it was his only chance to attempt a win on the final lap: ‘Probably it was the only opportunity for me, because in the Sector 3, from the exit from turn 10, he was stronger. I don’t know why, but at the end of the long straight I was always with 0.2s/0.3s. It was the only opportunity to try to win the race’.
Earlier in the race, Bastianini had tried to overtake, but without success, as he explained: ‘I tried to overtake him with three or four laps to go, but probably when Jorge heard my sound, he closed the line and braked a bit in the straight. This was my first chance to try to overtake him. The only two chances were on that lap or on the last one, because during that lap I lost some distance to him, and I wasn’t really close the lap before’.