Simon Crafar delivers “70-30” blame for Pecco Bagnaia-Alex Marquez clash

Next season's chairman of✃ Race Direction has his say on Araඣgon crash

Alex Marquez and Pecco Bagnaia's incident
Alex Marquez and Pecco Bagnaia's incident

Alex Marquez should take 70% of the blame for the incident in Aragon with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Francesco Bagnaia.

That is the view of Simon Crafar w🔯ho, next season, will become chairman of Race Direction.

Bagnaia and Marquez crashed out of last weekend’s Aragon MotoGP. Bagnaia has since apologised for claiming that his rival caused the contact purposely, but re🍎mains insistent that Marquez was at fault.

The collision was ruled a racing i🌃ncident by FIM stewards.

Crafar offe𓆉red his frank judgement from the paddock in Misano.

“I know that [Aragon] circuit well, I’ve d♕one a ♔lot of laps around there,” he said.

“I know that, when 🎃you ride wide at Turn 12, your ღTurn 13 is damaged.

“You are never going to please everyone.

“None of us have the same access to camerꦑas as Race Direction, and I trust they’ve watched every one. They spend a long time analysing and I have to respect what they๊’ve decided, because they have more info than us.

“But my gut feeling is that the majorit✃y of the blame is with Alex. That’s my take, without having seen all of the cameras ♏that Race Direction have.”

Crafar was asked if Bagnaiaཧ should have remained more patient with his manoeuvre.

He responded: “I bet he wishes that he was!

“That’s why I say ‘majority’ and not ‘all of the🅰 blame’.

“ꦐEnea Bastianini pulled the move off safely, in the race,༒ on two riders.

“I’ve answered how I feel. Unless there’s info that I don’t know, I won’t change my min𒁏d.

“I would say 70-30 on Alex’s side, blame-wise.”

The clash occurred with juꦑst six laps remaining. Bagnaia was set to score valuable points in the championship battle.

“He caught Alex two-and-a-half ✤seconds in a few laps,” Crafar analysed.

“If he l♛et Alex go, Alex had a horrible angle of approach so would have gone slow through the turn or ran wide, and Pecco could have passed him on the inside of the next right-hander.”

Instead, ꦛBagnaia left Aragon point-less and trailing championship leader Jorge Martin by 23 points.

The ramifications continue into this weekend’s San Marino Mot✤oGP.

Bagnaia is still at his physical optimum because he is still carryin🏅g knocks from Sunday’s i🀅ncident.

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