Disappointment at Aprilia after the race in Malaysia. Aleix Espargarò sees the world champion dream chased for a whole season vanish.
Aleix Espargaró definitively says goodbye to the world champion dream after the weekend in Malaysia. The eastern tour proves fatal for Aprilia, who was hoping for another championship final, after an excellent first part of the season. The Granollers bishop collected one victory and five podiums, the last at the Aragon MotorLand. Then from Motegi an irreversible declining phase began in which the various technical problems of the RS-GP22 emerged, but also some critical issues within the staff.
There House of Noale he assumes all responsibility, but the Catalan driver’s bitterness is so great at the end of the Malaysian GP. Difficult to overlook or remain silent, especially when it comes to hot declarations, in a day in which arithmetic condemns to postpone any ambition to win the title MotoGP. And with Ducati that, waiting for the riders ‘championship, also wins the team championship, after the manufacturers’ championship won five days early.
Aleix Espargarò’s latest goal
The 2022 season is not over yet, the last round of Valencia is missing, where there is still a lot at stake. Indeed Aleix Espargaròafter the tenth place in Sepang, is likely to be subtracted from third place in the final standings Enea Bastianini, now only one point away. “I gave my best all year, but in the final we were not up to the task. We did four races where it was difficult to get into the top ten, it saddens me. Today I am quite sad“, He admitted to Dazn’s microphones.
What went wrong in Malaysia? “We were too slow on the straight and had no traction. Zero grip from the start. I pushed like crazy, because I knew that every point is important for third place in the World Championship“, Stressed the eldest of the Espargarò brothers. “It wasn’t enough, I was too slow, the last four races have been a nightmare“.
There is also room for some controversy, after a contact with Yamaha’s on the last lap Franco Morbidelli. The 33-year-old Aprilia driver closes 11th, but in the end the FIM Panel sanctions the Italian and Aleix can earn an extra point for the classification. His words towards his rival are vitriolic … “There isn’t much to say. Already in Thailand, in the wet, she hit me three times. It happened again, even today. I don’t understand what Morbidelli is doing. He runs around the track, falls, they give him two ‘Long Lap Penalty’ and now another penalty. I don’t understand what he is doing, but it was right that they gave me back my position“.
