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Aleix Espargaro made a fatal blunder in MotoGP Catalunya 2022. racer Aprilia it explains the trigger for the incident.
Aleix Espargaro missed the chance to finish runner-up at MotoGP Catalunya, Sunday (5/6/2022) evening WIB. Celebrating too early made him lose position and had to settle for fifth place.
The 32-year-old misread the number of laps and thought the race was over. Though there is still one round left to go through.
A number of things played a role in triggering the error. One of them is the position of his team which is in first place after the last corner, so the time to look at the pit board is very thin.
Therefore, Aleix Espargaro relied on the lap record tower. Now at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, the last round is marked with L0, which is prone to be misunderstood by the drivers.
In fact Aleix Espargaro is not the first rider to make this kind of mistake. Kenny Roberts had it in 2006 and Julian Simon in 2009.
“My team people were first (after the last corner), so I didn’t have time to look at the laps. I didn’t have time to look at the number of laps and the distance with Martin in some laps,” Aleix Espargaro was quoted as saying. Crash.
“I was pushing to the limit so I just looked at the distance to Martin, +0.6, then looked up at the tower and I saw ‘L1’. So I did one lap and didn’t remember that in Barcelona here the last lap was ‘0’. shuts off the gas in a straight line.”
“So I’m really sorry for the team because I didn’t have the speed that Fabio had to win, but if I want to beat him in the championship, I can’t make these kinds of mistakes. Today I lost nine points, so I’m really sorry.” he added.
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