Bagnaia says Martin already lost a lot of time by going wide, but also insists rules must be respected
Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia thinks the long lap penalty his MotoGP title rival Jorge Martin received for going off track and cutting a chicane in the Austrian Grand Prix sprint was ‘not necessary’. Bagnaia and Martin were engaged in a tough duel on the second lap at Spielberg when the Pramac rider couldn’t stop his bike in time and had to go straight at the Turn 2 chicane, where an escape road is carefully laid out to allow riders to rejoin the track.
“But that's the way the rules are, and you have to follow them.” Bagnaia revealed that he had tactfully braked aggressively into the right-left sequence that is only part of the Red Bull Ring’s MotoGP layout, knowing that Martin would run wide in an attempt to stay ahead of him. TV images showed the rear wheel of the Pramac Ducati going up in the air in a half-stoppie as the Spaniard desperately tried to get the bike stopped in his failed attempt to make the corner.
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