Aleix: “It wasn’t my best race, but all in all we had limited damage”

Aleix Espargaró wanted everything at Silverstone when he arrived at the circuit on Thursday, but on Saturday he experienced the harsh reality in the form of a massive crash, a highside at 180 km/h, which made his life difficult . Not so bad were the heavy bruises on both ankles which somehow allowed him to continue in the competition as he could have finished the GP for him and left with a zero.

Questions about his physical condition are inevitable. “The truth is that physical fitness is not an excuse today. I don’t have much leg pain, but my whole body hurts and I can’t move properly on the bike. I wasn’t aggressive in the changes I wasn’t able to overtaking, but it’s part of the script after yesterday.”

“I have no foot pain, yesterday I thought both ankles had exploded. At night I could not walk, but I got up well and I got through before the race with Dr. Charte and I have no pain in my foot, but I was stiff, my cervix hurt and my back. Although it wasn’t a physical problem, I didn’t sleep very well, and we had front end problems. I had alarms. all the time. tire pressure and I couldn’t turn the bike, because the pressure was too high. It’s a bit my fault, I didn’t move on the bike and I didn’t help. I forced it. it a lot and I didn’t ride well explain said Alex.

When asked if the sadness of fighting for victory or the joy of being alive in the fight for the title is heavier, he declared that “it’s the same thing. I want to see it from a positive point of view. This championship will be long and energetic ” Ducati is getting closer, Fabio and I are still on 20 points and that is positive. I think I was the fastest of the weekend. Yesterday I was very fast in the morning and in the time trial I did the lap I did. I had a lot of good rhythm to fight for the victory, but I couldn’t”.

“It wasn’t my best race, but in everything we had limited damage. It was a long-distance race, we didn’t lose many points with Fabio and that’s about it, though, make no mistake, today is a good day to cut,” he lamented.

When he saw Quartararo in front of him “the truth is I didn’t care. I was disappointed because I didn’t fight for the victory. I was one of the fastest all weekend and I was angry not to fight. In the last The straight was very far from Fabio and I still release the brakes. I jumped and I guess I made a mistake, because it was impossible to get in, but I saw him in front and I tried”.

“The pressure is on him. He is the leader and the one we all want to chase. Last year he walked here and this year he was eighth. I still don’t quite understand his career. In the technical meeting they said that we have. watch Ducati coming and for me the arrival of Pecco is more positive, because he doesn’t want to be second but to win the title. Pecco looks at the leader, who has something to lose. , not me. That’s positive for me to win the World Cup,” he warned.

And about the second place of Maverick Viñales who had the victory in sight described it as “excellent. He is doing very well. He has done amazing things at Silverstone, but he is making a quality step and in a solid way. Fast he goes to practice and ends up racing. That’s great because it means the bike is working. The atmosphere in the team is phenomenal.”

In two weeks it was time for Austria, which in theory was not pleasant to Aprilia, but they did not agree. “Silverstone is a very easy track for Fabio and he finished eighth. Last year he won here by five seconds. Anything can happen and I don’t understand why Ducati won here. , but Aprilia is will be strong this year on all tracks”.

“There’s a lot of parity in MotoGP, a lot, a lot, and if one day you don’t have everything in place, these things will happen to you. Things like this will continue to happen from here to Valencia and that’s this MotoGP championship is beautiful. very open”.

And reading the race results turned the world upside down: “In today’s race, I don’t understand anything. If I get the classification, I understand zero of motorcycles. Both Ducatis were out of rhythm all weekend and both won. They did a fantastic job today, I don’t understand where they got the rhythm from. Bezzecchi was very strong, he finished 10th, Fabio was very strong and he finished me, KTM in the lead group, Bastianini was not in the top 15 on Friday. I really don’t understand what happened today, I had zero traction on the right side. This is MotoGP, it’s beautiful and amazing. The next eight races, the last part of the championship, will be fun.”