According to Aleix Espargaró, resentment towards the race management is growing among the drivers, and this while audiences have multiplied after several incidents during recent Grands Prix. “It’s not just me, it’s unanimous. At the Safety Commission, no driver is very happy”, assures the Spaniard. For him, the decisions of the marshals are too variable and too often take into account the context instead of sticking to the strict rules to decide whether a pilot should be punished or not.
“I have a lot of doubts about the panel of commissioners. There are a lot of things with which I do not agree, I think we can improve on a lot of points”, he emphasizes. “I understand, of course, that it is not easy for them, but it is not easy for me either to try to enter the top 10, it is not easy for my engineers, not easy for my wife to be a mother… It’s difficult for everyone, and I think we have room for improvement. “
“What the pilots are not comfortable with is that you have the feeling that it is always different, that they are not always equal in the face of the same actions. It depends on whether the pilot has fallen. or not, if he was leading the race, if it’s Moto3 or MotoGP… The rules are the rules, it doesn’t matter if they are two guys fighting for 20th place in Moto3 or if it’s Marc Márquez and Valentino Rossi. The rules are the rules. “
“What we are asking is therefore that it be more equal, I think that we can progress on this point. I also believe that on certain actions we do not agree with them at all, but it is especially on equality that we can progress the most. “
The Aprilia rider is particularly disappointed with the figurehead of the marshals, the three-time World Champion Freddie Spencer. “I have complete respect for Freddie Spencer, but… when was the last time he rode a MotoGP?” he asks cautiously. “It’s not easy… But I think we need someone who has ridden a MotoGP for the past five to eight years, who has raced in the premier class and who also understands a little the feeling of a MotoGP, that would help us a little more. But I repeat, it is not easy for them to do this job, and especially during these years where there is maximum equality between all the riders in the category. “
Aleix Espargaró can at least be satisfied with one thing, he was not penalized for the incident that pitted him against Danilo Petrucci during qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix on Saturday. Summoned the same day with the Ducati rider, who had openly expressed his anger, accusing the Spaniard of having hindered him in his fast lap, Espargaró saw the incident classified without follow-up, like the one who concerned his brother the next day.
“They told me that they heard me because Danilo was angry, but from their point of view what I did was not dangerous, that I had not hampered him in terms of performance and that there was therefore no penalty “, he assures. “They just heard me because you have to be good when another pilot shows up there and you have to hear the two pilots, but it was not dangerous and there was no waste of time in in terms of performance, then no penalty. “
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