Francesco Bagnaia admits “I was scared” battling Marc Marquez in the MotoGP French GP sprint race for fear of getting a penalty, as persistent stewarding problems remained present 🧐 Here's what the riders had to say after a combative event ⬇️
Francesco Bagnaia admits “I was scared” battling Marc Marquez in the MotoGP French Grand Prix sprint race for fear of getting a penalty, as persistent stewarding problems remained present.The Ducati rider was forced to drop a position for a hard-but-fair overtake on Jack Miller at the Spanish GP two weeks ago.
It’s understood that Spencer clarified what incidents would be punished, with any touch as riders overtake each other or any contact that disadvantages a rider being punished. “So, another time there is no consistency. It is strange. At the end of all the safety commission, I asked ‘so now the line is: if there is a contact and a rider gains a position, causes a consequence to the rider, there is a drop of one position?’
“So, I will try to enjoy life as much as possible, I will ride as I feel, I will try to be clean because I’m a clean rider. If I touch somebody and they want to penalise me, they will penalise me.“We see the same actions a couple of times in Jerez, and [the same ones] today there was no reaction. That’s it from my side.”
“All the rest were racing incidents. This is MotoGP. Then they started to speak about putting more penalisation, different warnings: if we have more penalisations, we will speak more and more about this.
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