🗣 'I want to thank Taka especially for his reflexes in avoiding me.' Franco Morbidelli says Takaaki Nakagami deserves a 'nice present' for not hitting him as he lay on the ground after a first-lap crash in the MotoGP SpanishGP sprint ⬇️
The sprint was red-flagged after this and all riders were able to restart, while the incident has been placed under investigation by the stewards.
Morbidelli came close to being struck by oncoming riders behind and praised LCR Honda’s Nakagami’s “reflexes” for sparing the Italian from a nastier incident.“I’m very happy that nothing serious happened because I remained in the middle of the track. Actually I want to thank Taka especially for his reflexes in avoiding me.
“I think he deserves a nice present. Now I will sort out a nice present to give him, because he did the maximum to avoid me and he just [barely] hit me, but it could have been much worse.”Morbidelli defended himself by claiming he was not trying to overtake Marquez and feels the Gresini rider “was cutting the line” on him, which led to the collision.“I was doing my corner.
“He didn’t see me, he left no space, I don’t know. But the result is he cut the line, we touched and we crashed. I didn’t want to overtake anybody, I just wanted to do my corner.”Marquez was surprised that Morbidelli was on his inside at that corner as “there was no space”.“So, I mean I didn’t expect that [Morbidelli contact].
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