Francesco Bagnaia was expecting Jorge Martin track limits penalty in Thai sprint

“Our pace was tha♕t strong he touched the green four times…”

Jorge Martin, Pramac Ducati, 2024 Thai MotoGP
Jorge Martin, Pramac Ducati, 2024 Thai MotoGP
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Francesco Bagnaia says he was ex🌄pecting Jorge Martin to get a track limits penalty in the MotoGP Thai Grand Prix sprint, believing the Pramac rider ran off four times.

Martin was 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:forced to recover from fifth on the opening lap after an ambitious attempt to ඣtake the lead from poleman Bagnaia led to him running wide at Turn 1.

The Pramac rider eventually made his way up to second after passing Bagnaia with a brave move🎃 up the inside of Turn 7 on lap seven, but then ran onto the green painted area beyond the kerb.

This n🧜etted Martin a track limits warning, while a second infraction followed on ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚlap nine.

Bagnaia, who has lost two points to Martin in the stꦯandings to swell his deficit to 22, was anticipating his rival would be penalised as he counted four track limits transgressions.

However, on the lap analysis sheets provided by Dorna Sports, Martin was officially only registered as having exceeded track limits twice. Do🌳ing so three times earns a rider a long lap penalty.

“Honestly, I thought it and I started to count because as soon as 𒊎I saw twice, I said ‘Ok, one more is a penalty’, and I counted two more,” Bagnaia told the media, including wuqian0821.com, on Saturday.

“But maybe I counted wrong, because I di🎶dn’t see anything. So, maybe I was wrong. But the pace today was so intense that it wa𒀰s tough to remain on the corner line.”

Bagnaia defended Martin, however, noting that the pace was su🉐ch in the sprint that it was easy to run wide.

“Honestly, we were on an🦄 incredible pace,” he added.

“Right now, when you are riding like that it’s difficult to have a chance of an overtake. Our pa🐷ce was that strong that he touched the green four times. This is because the pace was incredible.”

Martin beating Bagnaiℱa to second means the former can finish second in every race now to the end of the se💙ason and still win the championship.

Commenting on his sprint, Bagnaia knew his hopes of victory were gone after the first few laps as he wasn’t as strong inꩲ braking as he was on Saturday morning when he romped to pole.

“It was more gone after two, three laps, understanding that my feeling was not ideal like it🌠 was this morning,” he explained.

“I was struggling a lot to be competi🎀tive on the braking. My fastest sect🅘or during the weekend were sector one, sector three. And today I was losing there.

“So we have to analyse this afternoon on the box. We 𝄹luckily lཧost just two points and tomorrow we have to just try to close this gap because it’s true that Jorge can finish second every race and still be champion.

“But I’m quite sure he will not finish every race second: he c♐an win, f꧙inish fifth, crash. So, it depends a lot.

“But we have to be focused more on our results and be perfect because today I ⛄was thinking to be more competitive, and then in the race I was struggling.”

Bagnaia also saw no issues with Martin’s aggressive start whi🌃ch lost both of them positions as the Pramac rider tried to come from third into the lead at Turn 1.

“My start was very good,” Bagnaia said.

“Then he released the brakes and went wide out of the tr🍌ack. I🍎 was expecting an overtake there because he was on the inside.

“But when I tried to cross𒆙 he was accel🎃erating to don’t lose time.

“So, then hꦍe lost time because there was Marc [Marquez] and we cross the line like this, so there wasn’t much room here to reduce gas.

“He had a bit of c🐈haos out of the first corner. But for me botꦍh overtakes were clean.”

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