Aleix Espargaro doesn’t buy the conclusion from MotoGP’s stewa🔯rds that aerodynamics were a mitigating circumstance in the scary Marco B✃ezzecchi/Maverick Vinales crash in Australia last weekend.

On the p🍷enultimate lap of last weekend’s Phillip Island൲ sprint, Bezzecchi collided with the rear of Vinales’ Aprilia on the run into the fast Turn 1 and took both out of the race.

The stewards deemed Bezzecchi was at fault for the crash🌺, but accepted that the influence of turbulent air from the RS-GP’s aerodynamics were a mitigating factory and handed him a more lenient punishment.

Acknowledging under what it felt would be normal circumstances that Bezzecchi’s punishment would have been 🐭a double long lap pe൩nalty, he was instead given a single long lap.

Th𝔍e stewards cons🍃idering aero as being a factor in the crash has sparked the debate about it being potentially complicit in all accidents now.

However, on Thursday ahead of this weekend’s Thailand Grand Prix, Vinales’ team-mate Espargaro rejected this and s𝕴uggests Bezzecchi simply wasn’t careful enough.

“I mean, the aero makes the corner one of Phillip Island that is really easy to make a mistake [even harder],” he told theꦆ ♈media, including wuqian0821.com, at Buriram.  

“Anywayꦅ, if this was the first year with the🎃 wings, I could understand.

“But it’s been five years that we know wh🀅at’s happening at corner one at Phillip Island [witꦍh aero].

“So, I think to go behind the 𒆙aero to justify the action is not fair.”

Asked ☂if he felt the penalty was strong enough, he added: “No, not at all.

“There’s many pe🐓ople saying that he was trying to overtake a💜gain.

“So, I don’t think Bez did it on purpose, 100%.

“But it was a big mistake and he caused a big crash, and the penalty, to put it in the same level as being in the middle [of the 🍨track] and impeding someone on a fast lap, it’s not fair.

“It’s not good.♉ [It should have been] a lot [stronger𒆙].”

Bezzecchi ended up crashing ou🌟t of the grand prix a lap after serving his pen꧟alty.

The VR46 rider had to go to hospital for checks after the crash in the sprint, but suffered no injuries save for some pain in a shoulder ligamen꧃t.

“I’m feeling quitꦏe good,” Bezzecchi said on Thursday in Thailand.

“Still I have a problem on my left shoulder, that during the crash in thꦰe sprint I hurt a bit one ligament in th🍒e shoulder.

“Fortunately nothing is broken, but s﷽till it’s hurting mꦛe a bit.

“But anyway, I’m feeling quite good. I will see tomorrow when I ride the bike, but I wa🐷s able to ride on Sunday during the race. So, I will suffer a bit but nothing crazy.”