Ducati rider lost too much time in early laps at Motegi to fight Marc Marquez
Enea Bastianini says he was “too late” to fight with Marc Marquez for the final podium spot at the MotoGP Japanese Grand Prix.
Bastianini cleared KTM’s Jack Miller on lap three but couldn’t get past his team-mate Brad Binder until the tenth tour, having tried and failed the previous lap. “And I arrived at Turn 11 with a lot of turbulence. It was impossible for me to brake hard and also Jack overtook me.“Then, I realised this objective but was too late because the gap to Marc was too big to try to fight for the podium. In the end, I was so close to him but not to fight.”
Marquez exceeded track limits on the final lap at Turn 4, but the stewards consider a closely contested battle to be a gap of 0.5s or lower.
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