The pilots positioned themselves with Quartararo and did not understand his punishment

This Sunday is the leader of the MotoGP World Fabio Quartararo he faces a long lap penalty that he must serve in the first three laps of the race. Passing turn 14 (The Loop) is located in the asphalt loophole where the punishment zone that the pilots must draw without stepping on the white line and where they usually lose by a few seconds. Quartararo became the scapegoat for a series of aggressive actions that took place throughout the year in the queen category and that the Panel of Commissioners left without sanction and that he had in one starring Nakagami in Montmeló where he also shot Bagnaia and Rins as the blackest point.

So, compared to Nakagami, it seems like a joke that Quartararo’s aggressive action in the fifth lap of the Assen race against Espargaró -he fell and took Aleix off the track- deserves a penalty and all the drivers present at the official that press conference of the British GP positioned themselves in favor of Quartararo.

The penalty was announced a few hours after the Assen race, when Fabio himself, considered by everyone to be a clean driver, had already held his post-race press conference, so he expressed his discomfort through his social networks -” Next time I won’t try to overtake as the stewards think that’s too ambitious. Some drivers’ actions are listed as ‘race incidents’ but mine to have been too dangerous. Congratulations to the stewards on the amazing job they do.”

This Thursday at Silverstone the Frenchman insisted that “I have not changed my opinion and I do not want to say anything about the previous crash that was not sanctioned (Nakagami’s in Barcelona) and it was huge. I understand that they want to change the rules a bit, but you have to find a balance between irresponsible riding and a racing incident, I know I fell and caused Aleix to fall, but I don’t think I would be sanctioned, they have to find a balance so that it doesn’t let’s make our sport boring”, insisted Fabio.
He assured that he still doesn’t have a strategy, he knows that he has to fulfill it in those first three laps: “We haven’t started Friday’s practice and I don’t know what to expect, it will be a different race, a different challenge , but I am prepared and motivated. I will face Sunday in a normal way, but with another strategy.” And he made sure that he thought a lot at the beginning of his vacations: “I’m obsessed. But it’s not the last race of the season or the last fight of this year, it’s important but I don’t have to go crazy to do it fast and win. You can crash and I’d rather lose a few tenths and make sure to finish”.

Aleix Espargaro

The Frenchman’s great rival for 2022, Aleix Espargaró, the very driver whose race he destroyed in Assen, also positioned himself against a penalty that could benefit him on Sunday: “I agree with Fabio in the sense that he is happy and does not understand the sanction. We have seen other examples this year where there have been more aggressive actions and they have not been sanctioned. We are all trying to understand the limits and this is it should be the same for everyone because one day you will punish and the other you won’t. t and that’s how it costs understand it. We will continue to be aggressive and Fabio will continue to overtake, that’s what we ask of Stewards they will apply the same standards.”

Aleix assures that the long lap will not be so definitive: “I saw it this morning and the disadvantage is not too big either, it will not be crucial and last year Fabio was very strong at Silverstone. The point is that in the first three Laps there are a good group and you lose places, but at Silverstone he caught up easily”

alex rinses

The Barcelona native was the great victim of Nakagami’s strike at Montmeló as he suffered a fractured left wrist which compromised the last two races – he missed the Sachsenring – before the break.

“There are two types of crashes, one in Fabio where you start to overtake and lose the front end and another in Montmeló. The question is why in Montmeló the rider was not punished, I don’t know what needs to be changed to do well . Fabio I don’t agree with the sanction, but they have to start somewhere”

Peco Bagnaia

For the Ducatista “it is difficult to understand this kind of sanction. In Qatar I also did Jack or Fabio and we were not sanctioned and in Barcelona we saw a big crash and irresponsible riding and Taka (Nakagami) was not sanctioned. We are struggling I understand it I don’t agree with the sanction against Fabio, but in any case this race can give us an advantage and we have to take advantage of it to cut the maximum points, but I don’t agree with the penalty “.