If you call yourself Marc Marquez anything is possible, even going from hero to prime defendant within a race weekend. After all, until Saturday morning the first Grand Prix of the season had given only joy and applause to the Spaniard, who was able to conquer first the pole position and then the podium in the Sprint Race, riding a Honda in trouble to say the least. Then, as if the three-season nightmare wasn’t over, here’s the texture change, to be precise at dawn on the second lap of the Sunday race. At the entrance to turn 3 Marc wrong brakingcomes along and, after touching George Martinfully focuses on the innocent Miguel Oliveiraending the race of both.
The frightening dynamics of the accident
A scary dynamicresulting in a volley of boos for the Spanish, open reprimand by Massimo Rivola («These riders must be sanctioned otherwise they will do what they want, they are a bad example even for the minor categories») e Claudio Domenicali («If you had a problem you need documentation, otherwise it’s too easy to talk»). Not to mention the physical consequences: because if incredibly Oliveira seems to have come out of the explosion almost unscathed, the same cannot be said of Marc, who presented himself in front of the press with a showy rigid bandage on his right arm. Possible fracture of the first metacarpal of the hand the first medical response, to be confirmed by further tests at the Dexeus clinic in Barcelona. «I can’t and I don’t want to say whether or not I will race in Argentina (the GP is scheduled for next week ed), I only care that Miguel is okay – Marquez’s words – since it fell because of me and it makes me feel bad. I made a mistake and I apologized to him and to the Portuguese fans: I had a front wheel lockup entering a corner, and when I let off the brakes it was too late. I tried to go to the left, but the bike was bent and forced me to go to the inside. I managed to partially avoid Martin, but not Oliveira, for whom I was immediately worried».
Espargarò’s harsh words against Marquez
Therefore, Spanish is not hiding behind a possible technical problem, for which some were asking an exemplary punishment, much tougher than the double long lap penalty imposed on him. «They should make him miss a race, he could have broken Miguel’s knee» the sentence of Alex Espargaro. «On Thursday we talked about possible incidents like this, and it was said that this would be the punishment, at least for the first time. The regulation is clear: if the sanction had been harsher I would have accepted it anyway, given that I am guilty» the reply of Marquez. Between one front and another, there is the race direction which already after the first Grand Prix risks being labeled as inadequate.