The memory of his mistake in the 2023 MotoGP race continues to haunt Aleix Espargaró, but he is the first to take it philosophically and look for a special helmet in memory of that moment and that he will give “one more lap” even if he marshalls are seen with a checkered flag in the middle of the track. This is the way to relate it, but he was honest when he admitted that he remembered a lot during the week of the mistake he made last year, when he stopped and started waving thinking that he had finished the race in second position and there. one lap to go and he finished fifth. because he still pushed at the end.
“This week the social networks remember a lot, but I have said this during this time. In the end people make mistakes, I think I am more than people because I make more mistakes than usual and I am sure ll make many again more, maybe also this weekend, but I won’t repeat that one”, Aleix explained to the group with the Spanish press.
As shown last year by leading all the sessions, Aprilia adapts well to the Catalan track and they do not want to miss another opportunity: “It is a good circuit for us; in Austria I suffered and Maverick is faster and because we’ve been together I’ve never seen him ride like this, but I need to improve on stop&go circuits like that, but on tracks like this we can. You can fight for victory, last year I led all the sessions except the race, so this year with this bike, which is superior, we have to be in front”, he commented.
Regarding his low clutch, in contrast to how well his rivals Ducati and KTM are doing, he pointed out that the Noale engineers “are working hard, another thing is that it is difficult to see the results, but we have many engineers analyze all the data and our start times have improved a lot, another thing is that it is not enough”.
“We are working a lot, there is a whole department with a firm grip and we have improved by more than two tenths from 0 to 100 at the beginning, but it is not enough and I keep pushing them”, insists Aleix.
The Aprilia rider got the first win of the year at Silverstone and he remembers that in the early part of the campaign “I made a lot of mistakes because after the third race Maverick had 30 points and now I have more than 40. I didn’t start Well, it was my mistake. Maybe I wanted to win the championship right away and I made a mistake, crashing a lot and not setting good times, maybe I was preceded by anxiety or illusion, but I have no doubt that we end up fighting to be one of the best three in championship”
Source: La Verdad
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