Francesco Bagnaia has lashed out at Alex Marquez for his or her collision within the Aragon Grand Prix, claiming the Gresini Ducati MotoGP rider “did not cease accelerating till he threw me off”.
Marc Marquez’s victory dominated the headlines in Spain on Sunday, however the fallout between his youthful brother Alex and Bagnaia was additionally a serious speaking level after the race.
Alex Marquez collided with the manufacturing unit Ducati rider with six laps to go after they had been preventing for the final podium place, with contact at Flip 13 sending each of them out of the race.
Bagnaia was trapped below the Gresini GP23 as they slid off the observe, earlier than he was lastly launched when the bike flew over him within the gravel.
The crash left left him with a sore neck from the impression however miraculously neither suffered any critical accidents.
After the incident, Bagnaia and Marquez had been summoned individually to the Race Path workplace, and after presenting their views, each had been cleared of any wrongdoing.
However in his post-race interview, Bagnaia put the blame firmly on Marquez, describing the Spaniard’s actions as “harmful”.
He stated: “It is not that I’ve to elucidate a whole lot of issues. The dynamic is what it’s. It is worrying that there are riders who do sure issues. Once I was on the within I felt successful of fuel, and he did not cease accelerating till he threw me off.
Francesco Bagnaia, Ducati Group, Alex Marquez, Gresini Racing crash
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“The worst of all, what makes me most indignant is the information. The telemetry reveals that, after the contact, [Marquez] went from accelerating 40% to 60%. It is harmful to race with somebody who does this stuff.
“Usually, one tries to keep away from contact, though the information exhibits that there are individuals who don’t see it that approach.”
The collision was significantly expensive for Bagnaia within the context of the championship battle as he misplaced additional floor to title rival Jorge Martin, with the Pramac rider happening to complete second to extend his benefit to 23 factors.
Marquez, on his half, argued that he couldn’t see Bagnaia from his place after the latter had handed him for third.
He believes that the onus was on his rival to keep away from a collision.
“Nothing goes to alter what occurred. If anybody may keep away from contact it was him, who knew I used to be there. I had no information that [Bagnaia] was on the skin,” stated the 28-year-old.
“The one factor I instructed the Race Path members is that, if he had left a bit extra space between us and had not traced to the within, nothing would have occurred,” he added.
Bagnaia was upset that along with the accident itself that Marquez made no effort to apologise for what occurred within the speedy aftermath of the race.
Nevertheless, Motorsport.com / Autosport understands that a few hours later, when issues had cooled down, the 2 riders met in non-public in a Ducati truck to clear the air between them.
The assembly was simply between the 2 riders and concerned no different group members and lasted lower than 5 minutes through which they exchanged their variations of occasions.
The assembly occurred after the 2 had spoken with Ducati’s basic supervisor Gigi Dall’igna.
Alex Marquez, Gresini Racing crash
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