Aleix Espargaro hits out at Raul Fernandez’s ‘joke’ comments after Jorge Martin crash.

Fernandez He was battling with Pedro Acosta and Marquez in the early stages, briefly dominating the Catalan GP before dropping to P3. In the third reboot, Tracking house Rider had the speed to finish the stage.

But, in the fifth round, that fell apart when he crashed Martin’s Factory ApriliaTaking both riders out of contention. Martin stripped the members of the Aprilia team As the Spaniard returned his bike to the pits unclassified.

Fernandez came home in P17, and the trackhouse driver didn’t impress Martin much in the crash, much to his chagrin. Espargarowho opposed the opinion of his countryman.

Massimo Rivola takes on David Brivion. After an altercation between Pirnandez and Martin, he was arrested on World Food at the pit lane. After the race, the Trackhouse driver expressed his displeasure with the Aprilia star.

he said. DAZN: “The way I was today I feel a bit confident, first of all I feel bad for my team who did a good job this weekend, I feel bad for Aprilia, but there was a time when Jorge didn’t handle it well.

“He braked too early, I decided to look for him, and there’s a point where he’s almost on the bike – you can clearly see him lift off because he saw someone coming. When he does, he leans back on the bike and lets go of the brake.

“Eventually if there’s a race incident where we’re both out of the race, I’ll come in too late, I’ll take the blame, he won’t see me, I’ll go and apologize because I’m confused, and that’s it.

Fernandez was ‘not satisfied’ with Martin, adding: “I don’t think it’s completely fair. I’ll say it again, he saw me right because when he backed up the bike he picked it up and it leans again.”

“Not to say too much. I think they had a good weekend to apologize to my team. We had the pace to fight for the podium.”

After watching the interview, former Aprilia rider and Honda test rider Espargaro gave a candid response. X (formerly Twitter). He said: “These comments are meant as a joke, don’t you?” he said. clearly assuming that Fernandez was responsible for the accident.