Aprilia chews bitter after the unpleasant episode of Motegi: Aleix Espargarò must try everything in Thailand.
A few hours before the start of the Thai GP, 17th round of the 2022 MotoGP world championship. At Aprilia there is a hard bite to digest after what happened at Motegi, Aleix Espargarò has incinerated the hopes of getting closer to the leader Fabio Quartararo due to an error with the Eco lap map, used in the deployment lap to limit gasoline consumption.
A human error committed by an engineer in the pits of the Espargarò staff. After the official apology, the technician has been encouraged and is looking forward, even if some changes will have to be made in the management of the work. The CEO Massimo Rivolawho makes organization and precision his professional balls, ensures that clarity will be made to focus on the problem and prevent it from happening again in the future.
Aleix Espargarò chews bitter after Motegi
The distance in the standings is now 25 points, they start to become too many with four races from the end of the World Championship. In Thailand the minimum goal is the podium, the Catalan rider is forced to push and try everything, even if it is a track that in theory should favor the Yamaha M1 and the reigning champion Fabio Quartararo. The technical director Romano Albesiano he feels called into question: “The error is a statistical fact, there is never the absolute certainty of avoiding it. It also happens to those who, as in this case, have not missed a shot in 20 years – explains to ‘La Gazzetta dello Sport’ -. Now we are wondering what to do to eliminate these events“.
Massimo Rivola’s comment in the post GP of Japan is even harder. “We got it all wrong … We really screwed up. It’s a human error, it can happen. It is our job to understand why this happened“. In reality, it is necessary to do things in a simpler way sometimes, because the excessive meticulousness for every little detail can cause certain errors. “To save some fuel, you go wrong and lose the race. But it is also true that we are at a level where we look for every single thousandth. Maverick [Vinales] entered Q2 for just one thousandth. Our job is to push the limits. But it is also our job to do it safely“.
They do not look for excuses in the Noale garage, but all that remains is to look forward to the next Grand Prix at Buriram. “It’s very hard to digest, but I hope it makes us hungrier than Thailand, even though we know it’s not our lead.“, Massimo Rivola continued. Aprilia finds itself fighting for the title for the first time MotoGP, but at the base of the electronic error there is certainly not the inexperience of finding oneself in certain conditions. “We are not beginners“He told Sky Sport MotoGP. “It is true that we are not used to fighting for something very important. But this is not the point. It is a human error that unfortunately can happen“.
