Pol Espargaro thought he had finished as the second-best KTM after holding off Tech3 team-mate Augusto Fernandez and passing Jack Miller on the final lap of the Austrian MotoGP.
But a three-second post-race penalty for exceeding track limits not only dropped the GASGAS rider behind both Miller and Fernandez, but outside of the points to 16th, where he had started.
“In the Sprint race I could manage to compensate with other parts of the body,” explained Espargaro, who suffered serious neck and back injuries at Portimao. “But I woke up [Sunday] morning in really tough physical conditions.CHAOS in the MotoGP Sprint & Zarco joins Honda!“I did not feel good, I did not feel fast and I could not use my body to improve the drive or not waste so much tyre. For sure you lose a lot of performance.
“It was a bit painful, but, OK. The target for this weekend was to do a good Sprint race and end the [Grand Prix] race as best I could. I finished in P14 which would have been some points. That’s all that matters. The [penalty] is not important.Related Articles“P14 is not bad at all, but for sure I want more. I don’t want to be so far from Binder.”
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