Protagonist, but certainly not as he himself would have wished. The return to the competition of Marc Marquezwhich took place in the Aragon GP after three and a half months of stop, saw the Honda home champion at the center of the attention of all the professionals: unfortunately, however, the Spaniard did not stand out for a great result but for the double accident of which he was the protagonist during the first lap of the race. First the # 93 was hit by Fabio Quartararo, also thanks to a sudden detachment of his Honda which misled the leader of the world classification, then ‘overwhelmed’ the twin mode of Takaaki Nakagami, of the LCR team, causing the fall also some Japanese. This second accident, however, was caused by the presence in the swingarm of Marquez’s bike of a piece of Quartararo’s fairing, which was stuck inside. This caused the eight-time champion to lock up the rear wheel.
Fortunately, in this chaos, no one was hurt (too) badly, but inevitably the controversy exploded for what some judged as theyet another hasty return by Marquez. The Spaniard has in fact been criticized by many fans, who have pointed to him as responsible for both incidents. “When I gave the first interviews, I still didn’t really see what had happened – said the Spanish centaur to the microphones of Sky Sport MotoGP after the run – I reviewed the episode with Nakagami and it seems that I go left on the straight and hit him. Obviously I am a MotoGP rider and I know that we are in the course of the first lap, but looking in detail at the images you can see that there is a piece of Fabio’s fairing at the height of my wheel. For this reason, not only Nakagami, but also Marini and my brother almost hit me: because the rear wheel stopped and the bike started to the left and was stopping “.
Subsequently, Marquez also analyzed the contact with Quartararotrying to reply to those who contested it: “Fabio was trying to overtake me at turn 4, which is why he was so close. But I want to clarify one thing – the Honda Spaniard pointed out – given that the accusations against me have already begun because I moved in full straight. I know it was the first lap and I know that I am not playing for a World Championship, but if the wheel behind the bike got stuck, it went to the left just for this reason. I wanted to clarify it. With what happened I was hoping to start worse and finish the race – concluded Marquez, bitter – because I wanted to evaluate how the bike was going and how I was. Unfortunately this was not the case“.
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