Fifteen crashes in the Sprint
Aleix Espargarò, Jack Miller, Francesco Bagnaia, Fabio Di Giannantonio, Lorenzo Savadori, Alex Rins, Brad Binder, Alex Marquez, Enea Bastianini, Marco Bezzecchi, Marc Marquez, Maverick Vinales, Luca Marini, Stefano Bradl, Johann Zarco: this is the very long list of the fifteen riders crashed during the treacherous Sprint of the Spanish GP.
What happened
As told by former pilot Fabio Barchittapresent on the Curva 5 service road – one of the points where the many falls occurred -, the water accumulated on an adjacent hill rose up through the ground onto the asphalt. The circumstance, which surprised the track marshals with whom Barchitta then spoke, created continuously changing conditions in that section of the circuit and therefore caused the many falls later observed during the Sprint.
Marc Marquez's opinion
There was also one of the many riders who crashed on Saturday in Jerez de la Frontera Marc Marquezvictim of Turn 9. But the Spaniard is not among those convinced that the race should have stopped with the Red flag: “For me it wasn't something to stop. Everyone takes the risks they want. If a track is safe, and we're talking about escape routes and all that, it's safe. I fell and I can say it was safe. Everyone is aware of the risks and if you go slower you won't fall. If you are more careful in those three corners, you don't crash, but you lose three tenths in each corner. Each driver manages it as he believes.”
Specifically about his fall, Marquez explained to Dazn Spain: “The tires were wearing out and it was increasingly difficult to make tight lines. In Turn 9 I braked earlier than on the previous lap, but then I hit the damp. The difficulty lay precisely in the damp patches, which were on the outside and impossible to see. She went by instinct.”
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