VR46 MotoGP rider💯 Franco Morbidelli has doubled down on his criticism of Honda’s Aleix Espargaro following their tangle at the British Grand Prix, saying “I𓄧 could have been worse”.

The pair collided on the opening lap of the British GP at the Vale chicane, when HRC wildcard 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Aleix Espargaro crashed and took 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Franco Morbidelli with him.

No stewards action was taken on the incidꦺent, though both had strong opposin🅷g views after the Silverstone race.

Morbidelli -ౠ who suffered a foot fracture in the clash - said Espargaro has “always had something extra for me”, eluding to a number of incidents the pair have ♏had over the years.

Asked on Thursday ahead of the Aragon Grand Prix if he felt his com𒁏ments were harsh and if his opinion had changed, Morbi🐭delli doubled down.

“I’m sor🌊ry to hear that I was harsh because I could have been much, much worse,” Morbidelli, who was able to take the restart at Silverstone following a red flag and narrowly miss the podium, s⛦aid.

“I wasn’t harsh. Under that point of view, I ꦉdon’t change my thought an inch.

“I believe that 𓃲wh✅at I had to experience on Sunday was not fair at all and was not the behaviour that a test rider should have against another rider competing for important positions in the championship - even though it was a mistake.

“There’s no doubt about that: Aleix Espargaro made a mistake onꦓ Sunday. But because that mistake means many things.

“That mistake that a test ri🌊der is not collecting data for h🤪is factory.

“It means he is racing against other riders in a way that makes him do mistakes while he’s doin🍒g what he’s supposed to do, whic🍷h is just bring the package home and collect data, even more if you have the weekend that he had.

“So, clearly off ꦆthe pace by t✱wo, two and a half seconds in every session, and then in the race you crash in the first lap.

“That’s not an index of doing your work properly. I had to pay for that with a fracture on my f💯oot and that’s frustrating.

🐽“I could have been ♐much harsher after this episode.

“Instead I just said for sure he has something with me because of the fact he’s not a𝔍ble to do his job to the end, just to race in a way that a tesꦜt rider is not supposed to race.

“I added that because of our history. That’s no secret, we had episodes, so I thought ‘what’s the thing that made Aleix Espargaro come out of his working programme during a race where he wasn’t clearly racing with anyoཧne else because he was two and half seconds slower’.

“Maybe it was me who found myself in that point of the race where I wasn’t supposed to but I had a bad start and I was there. So, that’s🉐 what happened and that’s what I said after the race.

“But that was the ꦬepisode that gave me the red flag and be a﷽ble to pick up the bike again.

“I don’t know if I would have been able to ma🌠ke the race that I did without that because I was 18th at that moment. So, this is a thing that alleviates the frustration. But what I think i𒉰s exactly the same.”

Espargaro apologised for his part in the incident, though hit back at Morbiꦚdelli’s criticism in the afterm🐷ath.