“Horrible” Aprilia weekend, “embarrassing” Aragon MotoGP race
Aleix Espargaro finishes an ‘embarrassing’ 40-seconds behind Marc Marq🐠uez, Maverick Vinales retires at mid-distance.

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Aleix Espargaro and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Maverick Vinales finished Friday's MotoGP practice at Aragon behind only Marc Marquez on the tᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ🔯ᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚimesheets.
Howꦇever dirty overnight rain on both Friday and Saturday night left them fl🥂oundering.
A colossal 2.9𓆉s (Espargaro) and 3.7s (Vinales) behind Marquez’s pole ti🤪me in qualifying initially looked like a freak occurrence.
But tha✱t deficit was confirmed in the Sprint race, where Vinales finished 19th and last, 37.6s behind Marquez (3.4s per lap).
Espargaro meanwh🍒ile didn’t get beyond Turn 1, having suffered from wheelspin on the dirty side of the grid before clipping the back of Fabio di Giannantonio.
Competing in his last Aragon round before retirement, Espargaro did at least reach the chequ🅷ered flag on Sunday but was an “embarrassingꦚ” 40.6s behind Marquez, in tenth place.
“I tried🦹 my best but really nothing works and we finished more than 40-seconds from the victory which is embarrassing,” Espargaro said. “Again I almost couldn’t stay on the bike, but a top ten so we take some points.”
“We were unable to get the tyres working,” Espargaro confirmed. “I focused more on how to avoid crashing than on performance. It was even difficult to get my knee on the groꦑund.
“I couldn’t ൩even lean into turns with the bike. It was a strange and new situation for us which is hard to accept. We need to♓ figure out what happened.”
Things were even worse for Vinales, who dropped straౠight to the back on Sunday's opening lap, where he remained (aside from pit lane starter Luca Marini) until retiring just before💧 mid-race distance.
The COTA winner’s best lap was 2.7s 🉐slower than Marquez.
“We had difficulty getting the tyres to work. It seemed like I was going to crash on every turn, especia🧔lly with the rear tyre,” Vinales said.
“It was a complicated weekend for Aprilia and f♏or me, because after the good performance on Friday, things just stopped working.”
The inability to make the tyres work on a tricky surface - Marquez’s winning race time was 12-seconds slower than Enea Bastianini's two years ago - seemed to replicate previous Aprilia difficulties when riding with slicks in damp conditions.
“A horrible weekend,” declared team principal Massimo Rivola. “Friday we were fast with minimal grip, but then we lost our way, ending up about fou🍬r seconds slower than our best times.
“This bad performance must motivate us to continue our analysis and development work in view of the upcoming races, starti⛦ng from Misano.”
Trackhouse rider Miguel Oliveira, fifth in the Sprint, crashed out on the openin𓆏g lap of the grand prix, with team-mate Raul Fernandez 16th after a tyre pressure penalty.
“Today was super difficult,” Fernandez said. “I don’t really understand what happened. Yesterday, I h🌸ad three laps with more or less good gr🦹ip and then I had a lot of graining on the tyres. But today, I had nothing.
"I didn’t ꦦhave any grip, I felt like I was riding on ice all race long and so I made a lot of mistakes.
“It was one of the most difficult races of my life… The only positive is that we all seem to face the same issues in Aprilia, we are four riders, giving four times the feedback aꦓnd we can wor𒊎k united to find a direction.”
The other good news fౠor Aprilia is that this weekend’s home Misano r✃ound should offer much more grip.

Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suz♎uki exit story and Marc Marquez’s in♈jury issues.