Aleix Espargaro: "If I took another, maybe I would be more angry"

The Spanish Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia RS-GP) was able to finish fourth in a race where he was relegated to fifteenth place due to a disaster with Frenchman Fabio Quartararo and for that reason he said he had “ very good time, that’s true, I’ve advanced a lot and I had a wonderful bike, my bike is a different league now “.

“And it’s a shame, because I see the speed I have now I can win, and I don’t have a lot of victories to throw them, but Fabio made a mistake, though and at least I managed to get on the bike, but I did little injury to the arm to hold it, because there was a lot of dirt and I thought I was going to fall, but being able to get in and do the speed I did was impressive ”, admits Espargaró, who however said he was more satisfied with his success in Argentina.

Of the overtakes made, he said he didn’t know which one to keep since he did “A lot; for example, I saw Joan Mir overtake very easily and I saw them in the distance and she spent six or seven laps to overtake Zarco, and when I got there, I passed one of them in a corner. and another on the other corner.I was just looking ahead, I saw a black bike in front and I knew it was the podium, that Maverick was third and I was just looking at that black bike and my screen, watching the every split to try to stay all the time on the track record and I have. I think more loot than this is impossible. “

And he explained his double overtaking to Miller and Binder: “I was 12, fast, very fast. On the last lap I put map number 3 where there was almost no traction control, and the bike slipped hard. ., the tire temperature was rising, but I knew that on the last lap I had to give it my all and I started very fast, and when I saw Jack (Miller) and Binder brake early, I said ‘you need to leave. , and if you get in, you get in ”’, but I got in, the bike braked properly, and it was … Because of the difference in points, I think it was worth the overtaking”.

As for Quartararo’s maneuver that destroys his option to fight for victory, he doesn’t want to add fuel to the fire on a pilot he’s so good at hurting.: “Now he said to me: ‘Fabio fell’. ‘Yes, he fell but he hit me’. ‘Well, but he fell, the poor guy’. ‘You’re welcome, you’. Fabio is a clean pilot, who has hardly fired other drivers yet.That’s number one.If another driver fired me, I would probably be more angry.But Fabio was a clean driver and came directly to me to apologize , we have a good relationship.in the gallery.If I have a good relationship with someone I say, I am not selling smoke nor am I a hypocrite.So on a day like today when you make a mistake, you will see the young madman and who. sad and who felt resentment … He said to me: ‘No, I was just wrong, I judged him wrong, I was so wrong’ .So, what are you going to do? Nothing will happen.I hope it doesn’t happen to me, but it can happen to me. “

“It’s the first time in my career that I’ve seen dome drops and negative dash times … All the time ‘minus zero, zero something’, and I thought ‘you lost the race; now is a chance , Fabio has failed very few times ‘, but now he has failed and I know I have to take advantage of it and when I was eight or ninth and I saw it was raining he told me to’ finish at eight or nine, and get five points, you can fall but you have to try ‘and that’s why it’s important to shoot at those times with raindrops. I’ve never done that before “, Aleix Espargaró recalled with satisfaction.

“I lost a victory, because I think I could win, but for me the most important thing, apart from the difference with Fabio, and I said this a few days ago, because the consistency is so good, the feeling the fastest, having speed fight for the championship, because otherwise, even if you’re consistent, you can’t.And today I recovered points and I think now I’m the fastest on the track and that is it’s very important to me. They don’t give you points for that, but to me It tells me I can win the championship “, the Aprilia rider admits with confidence.

And about the first podium with Aprilia by Maverick Viñales, a rider who was asked by ‘Il Capitano’ to sign when he was free with Yamaha, He stated that “I’m happy for Maverick. In fact, on the penultimate lap I slipped on lap 1 because I saw he was a bit far away and I said ‘holy shit, don’t lose the podium with Jack like what happened to me in Germany last week. ‘ He’s getting better and he’s doing a great job, and I think for his morale, for the team, for everyone, it’s very good.I’m happy for him but being selfish I’m happy for me because for my fight for the championship, it added a lot to me that Maverick was there on the podium. “

He said it would help him “in a lot of things. To learn. Yesterday, for example, I was learning a lot that at 12 and 17 Maverick was better than me. This morning in the warm up I went out behind him to see how he did them Then, in case he needed help in the career, he always told me that he would help me, whatever he needed.So I think, having a strong and united team to fight the others are always better “.

“I think it’s good that he finished third and I fourth, because if there are two more laps left, at the speed of his going, I’ll take the podium from him. But it’s good, I think he deserves it and those are I won’t change so three points.