Pecco Bagnaia attacked Alex Marquez after the controversy between the two at the Aragon GP. All this happened six laps from the end, when the two men collided and ended up on the ground in their fight for third place. After the race, the Italian accused the Spaniard of throwing him on purpose during his appearance before the media at the MotorLand Aragon circuit.
“There is not much to explain what happened. What happened is very clear from every point of view.“The dynamic is one and it is clear,” the current champion began by saying, leaving Aragon 23 points behind Jorge Martín, leader of the MotoGP World Championship. The incident was classified as a racing incident by the FIM Stewards Panel after hearing the versions of both riders.
“What makes me angry is that looking at the telemetry, it’s even worse than reality. It’s worrying that there are drivers who do certain actions, but anyway he had gone wide and I overtook him. Before changing direction, I was already a bit ahead of him, so he probably saw me. I didn’t want to get too close because I already had enough speed to overtake him in the corner, but once we got on the inside, I noticed a gas shock, he looked for contact…”, said.
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Crash between Álex Márquez and Pecco Bagnaia while they were fighting for third position 👀#AragonGP 🇪🇸 #MotoGP 🏁 pic.twitter.com/D0iisywwyU
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According to Bagnaia, telemetry indicates that Alex Marquez “accelerated. AND data-wise he only cut the gas when it also fellAt that point he was chasing me. It gave 40 to 60 percent gas, and that seems unacceptable to me. “It’s very dangerous for some drivers to do certain things.”He doesn’t even look at my face. That’s how you understand the character well.” he added.
Asked if the incident was similar to the one he had with Marc Marquez in Portimao, which was very similar, the two-time MotoGP world champion assured that it was “totally different”. In Portimao, I was overtaken and I rode long, and I just went inside and inside and from that outside he closed the line, which is a very different dynamic.
Regarding the race, Pecco stressed that “third place was an easy goal. I would have finished third, I was turning half a second faster than the one in front of mewas able to ride more or less like Martín. This weekend never went well, we had a lot of problems and in the moments where I had a normal situation, I was third in official training, I did a good practice lap on Friday, and today it was fast.”
Regarding the starting problems, the number 1 said: “I started like yesterday. When I got to the grid I immediately understood that it was going to be a difficult start, because my position was even dirtier than yesterday.. They should have cleaned it up, but they didn’t. And from that moment on it was very complicated, it was difficult for me to overtake Morbidelli, but once I overtook him I was able to easily catch up with those in front. It’s a shame, because finishing third today would have meant a lot after the weekend we had, but someone decided not to let me finish“.
Finally, they asked him if Marquez had a chance to fight for the title, to which he replied: “You can’t know, because Enea also fought until Silverstone. You have to understand the consistency, you have to see how he reacts. Marc is a very good driver and that will give him a lot of motivation, like Enea, even if I think the fight will continue between Martin and me.. There are only 23 points left and they can be collected again. We will see if Marc is able to make the same differences also in Misano.“.
