Enea Bastianini after British MotoGP: “Marc Marquez touched me, impossible to stop the bike”
The Repsol Honda rider crashed out at Silverstone after an incident with his factory✨ Ducati ri꧒val, who battled on before also retiring from the race.
For Marquez the importance was arguably greater because ♛he has still not completed a grand prix in 2023 amid a plethora of problems on his substandard bike.
It initially appeared that he🃏 was unfortunate at Silverstone to be wiped out of the race bu Bastianini, ಞbut now the Italian has offered a different view.
“Marc 🦋touched me in Turn 11, ⛦on entry,” Bastianini said.
“On Turn 15, I t🐻ried to brak༺e but it was impossible to stop the bike so I went straight on.”
Marquez was out of the race immediately, Bastianini tried to c🌌ontinue for a while but also came to a premature end.
“After the c🌞ontact with Marc, something happened on the bike,” he explained. “Also, the tyre was b💝roken.
“Probably, because of this I crashed.”
Bastianini saw Mooney VR46 rider Marco Bezzecchi dramatically crash out from second-place when trying to overtake factory Ducati rider🦩 Francesco Bagnaia.
“When you are behind other riders, the downforce is impossible to stop the bike in a short time,” Bast�🔯�ianini said about Bezzecchi’s incident.
Bastianini has also experience a season ruined by an injury at the first weekend and𒉰 has completed just two grands prix, at the prior two rounds.
“Physically I am OK,” Bastianini said about his comeback from injury. “But the bik𒈔e is so nervous so I am not relaxed on my sea🤪t.
Bastianini said about his adaption from last year’s Gresini bik🅺e to the 2023-spec Desmosedici: “We changed a lot to the bike to arrive for the race, to do something more. But nothing changed.
“Tౠhe race ไwas so difficult for me. Only in the hardest-braking I was strong. In the other parts of the track, no.
“We have tried a rear suspension, we tried to ꦛmodify the bike, but probably we need more, something more.
“Like Pecco’s, ꦕbecause he changed last year’s bike a lot.
“But I need time to understand this.
“It was important to do this race, to do 16 laps. Now I have more data to give to my team, to 🐬explain🌌 to my team.
“Probably, the direction will not be similar.
“I don’t know if I can do this in a short time.
“Last year it wa꧑s normal but the engine is now differ꧅ent. My sensation is [different]. It is so aggressive for me, not a good choice.”
James was a sports journalist at ꦗSky Sports for a decade covering everyth𓆉ing from American sports, to football, to F1.
