MotoGP Argentina: Alex Rins: I couldn't see anything. a real shame

Alex Rins felt that a fogging visor cost him his first MotoGP top six as a Honda rider - and maybe more - in Sunday’s Argentine Grand Prix.
Alex Rins, MotoGP race, Argentina MotoGP, 02 April
Alex Rins, MotoGP race, Argentina MotoGP, 02 April

Starting twelfth, Rins climbed through the field to fifth by the midwꦺay stage, when the fogging problems began.

The Spaniard even🔴tually dropped to ni🦩nth place by the finish

“It was not a good result,” he said. “10-15 laps from the end I started to have some problems with fog inside the visor and I could not see anyt🧸hing.

“I started to lose pos🥂itions because✅ of this. I could not see the lines or the kerbs so it was a disaster.

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“In the wet warm-up and qualifying it was f𝓀ine. But not in the race. I [lifted] the visor up and down on th꧒e straight and tried many things.

“Before that I was riding qui𝕴te well. The bike was super and the grip on the maximum ꦑangle, compared to the previous bike [Suzuki] I was riding, this one had a lot of traction and on the front I was able to stop the bike.

“So it was a real 𝓡shame because – a podium I don’t know – but top five-s꧑ix I was able [to achieve].”

Johann Zarco,🍎 behind Rins when the fogging problems began, went on to claim a podium.

Rins confirmed he had raced 🌱with the newer RCV chassis, given⛎ to him by HRC due to Marc Marquez’s absence, and will have access to it again in COTA, when Marquez is expected to return.

LCR team-mate Takaaki Nakagami finished 13th.

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