Aleix Espargaro He did not lose his humor after his poor start at the Thai GP. Despite his thirteenth start, he hesitated with Álex Márquez in the presence of Bagnaia and the Spanish journalists, telling him that he had moved to Madrid because of his change of residence, to which the man from Lleida replied that he was Andorran, which caused both They burst out laughing and shook hands.
-The result you expected?
-This morning I have gone slowly, but in the afternoon I have improved a lot and I have made a big step forward; I think the pace is not that bad, it’s not that bad, but I can’t go faster in one lap. We do a very long ‘spin’ and I seem to remember that the last time I had this feeling was in the Czech Republic four years ago, that the bike did not move forward. On the straight he spins brutally and I’m not angry, because I think I’m not riding badly, but I think I have to go faster. It is really a bit frustrating to see that we lose time in each acceleration, because the bike slides a lot, and Maverick has the same problems. Every time Maverick has raced here he has been on the podium so I don’t know very well, but hopefully we can improve something tomorrow.
-Is it a problem with the bike or is it because they start from scratch and go a little blind?
-In 2019 I made turn three in first gear; Nobody does it in first class and now we do it in second like everyone else. This morning we did turn four in fourth gear, that the bike was not moving from the spot and Baiocco told me that nobody does it in fourth gear and we have made the change 12 kilometers shorter to do it now in third gear. It is true that we started very lost and we have changed a lot, and it is something that obviously, although we have evolved a lot and I like it, it does not help much for Friday. I hope that tomorrow we can work in the dry and I hope that I can get closer to the best that you are already seeing here as it is, with eight Ducati in the top ten and I think that only Marc is ahead of me with a non-Ducati bike, so it is difficult .
-I wanted rain and it was a dry day…
-No, no, I didn’t want rain. We also don’t know what’s going to happen because anything can happen here, so in the past I looked at it a lot and put a lot of pressure on it, but now you look at it to make plans with the team, with Antonio, with my technician, and with the tires. , but what has to come will come and I go fast in the water and also in the dry so…
