Qualifying for the Portuguese Grand Prix did not reserve great news for the Italian drivers, at least not for those involved in Q1. In the session that guaranteed two places ‘in the sun’, and therefore the fight for pole position with the best ten in free practice, ‘Pecco’ Bagnaia and Enea Bastianini both crashed and were then eliminated. Both paid for the slick hazard on a track that was rapidly improving, but perhaps required a few more minutes to be tackled safely on dry tires. The Ducati rider and the World Championship leader paid the consequences: the situation of Bagnaia, who is in a lot of pain after suffering a strong scapulo-humeral contusion, was more worrying, as confirmed by Dr. Michele. Zasa, medical director of the Mobile Clinic. The team manager Davide Tardozzi he added: “The x-ray showed no fractures, but for safety Pecco is in the hospital to undergo a CT scan“.
These, however, are the words of Bastianiniwho for safety went to the Mobile Clinic to check the conditions of his right hand: “It didn’t take us, certainly it’s a bad blow, it had also started well, I was convinced I could enter, at the beginning we entered with rain tires, I immediately tried to place a good lap and I had even succeeded. Then I saw that the track was good enough for slicks, so I tried to put them on. But unfortunately I wasn’t able to get them up to temperature in time, on the last lap I tried to push harder to get into Q2, but I exaggerated because the tire was cold. Too bad because maybe if I went in later it wouldn’t have happened. I tried to do the best I could, let’s hope it’s okay now, a wrist hurts but it’s nothing seriousthere is nothing broken. Tomorrow I will be in attack mode“.
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