Aleix Espargaro: "We need to stop Fabio"

The Spanish Alex Espargaró (Aprilia RS-GP) was delighted with the result of the classification, despite being fifth, because for him “the speed has been very good” even though he acknowledged about the tires that “they have to go very well to can do more than twenty laps in 1.32 “.

“The truth is, for a lot of races we haven’t been able to flat out from the first lap to the last and in this one it seems like we can be flat out, that tire consumption isn’t going to be a problem, and that is very positive ”, Espargaró said

“In Barcelona my mistake, I didn’t drop the tire and I lost the race in the first laps but, for example, Germany in the first laps, I consumed more than them, there I made a bad race for the front but in the end I don’t have much traction and instead Yamaha seems to have more at the end of the race than we do, right now ”, explains the Aprilia Racing rider.

“At Le Mans or at Mugello, where I went on the podium, I had no sensations that I had here, I think I was very fast on every lap, the problem was Jorge (Martín) and Bezzecchi, who had slipped in front. I, don’t they have a run or those of Pecco and Fabio, so we have to overtake fast “, said Aleix Espargaró.

“Of course I want to win, but at this point in the championship it’s very important to stay ahead of Fabio and reduce him. I want to take a break less than the grand prix difference, a lot,” the Aprilia rider would have admitted.

“We have to stop Fabio, we can’t let him go on the beginning of the race, if the race is not lost. Of course he will try, but our work, that of Pecco and me, which in this case I think. The two of us are with pace, it has to be trying to stop him from the start. Because then you can’t catch him, even if you have a very good pace. Today, on lap 21, I did 32.9 and I Don’t think that there will be faster than that tomorrow on lap 21, but if he puts you in two seconds, you can’t catch him, it’s impossible “, he explained.

Regarding his statements on the first day about the conditions of the asphalt, Aleix Espargaró confirmed thatthat “one hundred per cent of the pilots on the‘ Safety Commission ’, one hundred per cent, said that if it became a race they should have to draw a red flag, it could not race”. “

“One hundred percent, but it’s true that not putting a red flag on an FP1 isn’t very serious, in the sense that it’s as easy as doing what I did: you stop at the box and that’s it, but the One hundred percent is. agreed that it was not possible in the career and what they asked us was we need to find a solution because for them from the outside it is not very obvious ”.