A weekend that looked great for the current champion in a theoretically uncomfortable scenario ended up turning bad for the Frenchman, who had to say goodbye to the race before completing four corners.
A scare from Marc Márquez as he passed through turn 3 on the first lap led the Honda rider to cut gas, a circumstance that, with the peloton still compact, prevented the Devil from avoiding him. As a result, the second abandonment of the course for Yamaha and goodbye to a good handful of points of the advantage that he had at the head of the classification of a World Cup that erupts.
As if the result of the race wasn’t cruel enough, the marshal who accompanied Fabio Quartararo back to the garage was momentarily distracted and crashed head-on into another scooter. Luckily, all the visible bruises on the body of the Nice runner were from the first costal shot, which, in any case, should not prevent him from arriving fresh at the next appointment, in Motegi, in seven days.
“I’m sore. It’s a shame because it’s the first time in many years that I felt good at Aragón, and crashing in the third corner is not the best thing. I had a second accident. Luckily I hadn’t taken off my helmet, and all I have is from the first fall. I fell twice in two minutes, it wasn’t my day”, summarized, resigned, the still leader of the table, in which he has a ten point margin over Pecco Bagnaia, his first pursuer, and 17 points over Aleix Espargaró, the third.
Regarding the incident that eliminated him from the test, #20 classified it as an unfortunate racing incident: “Marc had a scare, I had better traction and I hit him from behind.”
On a day to forget, the only positive aspect for Quartararo was that Bagnaia dropped five points along the way, as a result of Ducati’s policy, which allows its riders on the payroll to fight for victory without having issued orders for everyone to row in favor of #63: “The only joy I take with me is seeing Bastianini win.”
