"To avoid the contact I locked the front and I crashed"
Their battle last weekend at Jerez ended when Espargaro locked his front wheel at Turn 5, on Lap 10, causing him to crash into Zarco.
But Aprilia’s Espargaro was left annoyed by the LCR Honda rider for their repeated contact beforehand. “Because I said to Johann ‘we are in P14, he hit me three or four times, you need to have more respect’.Aleix Espargaro, Johann Zarco, MotoGP race, Spanish MotoGP, 28 April"Because the easy thing for me at that corner was to touch him a little bit. “We saw that no penalty coming in this. But it's not my riding style."This is what I said to Johann. And he said ‘okay, I understand you’.
“But then Johann was really angry with all the race direction panel for other actions of and he doesn't hide the emotions."But it didn’t stop Zarco slamming the stewards afterwards.The French rider insisted “he was looking at me like he wanted to know what I wanted. He wanted for me to complain about Aleix”.
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