Simon Crafar delivers “70-30” blame for Pecco Bagnaia-Alex Marquez clash

Next season's chairman of Race Direction has his💃 say on Aragon crash

Alex Marquez and Pecco Bagnaia's incident
Alex Marquez and Pecco Bagnaia's incident

Alex Marquez should take 70% of the blame for the incident in Aragon with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia.

That is t♓he view of Simon Crafar who, next season, will become chairman of Race Direction.

Bagnaia and Marquez crashed out of last weekend’s Aragon MotoGP. Bagnaia has since apologised for clဣaiming that his rival caused the contact purposely, but remains insistent that Marquez was at fault.

Theꦿ collision was ruled a racing incident by FIM stewards.

Crafar offered his frank judgem꧑ent from the paddock in Misano.

“I know that [Aragonꦏ] circuit well, I’ve done a lot of ♎laps around there,” he said.

“I know that, when you ride wide at Turn 12, yourꦿ Turn 13 is damaged.

“You are never going to please everyone.

“None of us have the same access to cameras as Race Direction, and I trust they’ve watched every one. They spend a long time analysing and I have to resp🍷ect what they’ve🌊 decided, because they have more info than us.

“Bu⛎t my gut feeling is that the majority of the blame is with Alex. That’s my take, without having seen all of the cameras that Race Direction have.”

Crafar was asked if Bagnaia should have remained more ꧑patient with his manoe🐎uvre.

He responded: “I bet he wishes that he was!

“That’s w﷽hy I say ‘majority’ and not ‘all of the blame’.

“Enea Bastianini pulled the move off safely, in the race, on two🥀 ri༒ders.

“I♎’ve answered how I feel. Unless there’s info that I don’t know, I won’t change my mind.

“I would say 70-30 on Alex’s side, blame-wise.”

The cꦅlash occurred with just six laps remaining. Bagnaia was set to score valuable points in the championship battle.

“He caught Aleꦿx two-and-a-half seconds in a few laps,” Crafar analysed.

“If he let Alex go, Alex had a horrible angle of approach so would have gone slow through t𒅌he turn or ran wide, and Pecco could have passed him on the inside of the next right-hander.”

Instead,🦂 Bagnaia left Aragon point-less and trailing championshipﷺ leader Jorge Martin by 23 points.

Th♑e ramifications continue into this weekend’s San Marino MotoGP.

Bagnaia is still 🐻at his physical optimum because he is still carrying knocks from Sunday’s incident.

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