Aleix Espargaro: “It may rain, but we are more competitive than our rivals”

Aleix Espargaro (Aprilia RS-GP) Japan Grand Prix Practice 6th “This is a valuable result, not only because we were fighting for the title, but also because we sometimes struggled in the water.

“Today was very quick. I made a small mistake in turn one. I wish I could fight “Paul” underwater It’s something we didn’t expect and it’s good to think about the championship and for me the immediate future of the next race because it could rain and we’re more competitive than our rivals,” said Aprilia. of riders vouched… claiming to have completed 50% of the work.

“The remaining 50% will remain tomorrow and that’s the exit., if in the beginning I got a position and they didn’t get much…because all the championship rivals are behind him – in the end I failed and they got 2 Nothing to do today, but I think if you start well, it will always be difficult to come back, even with Pecco and Fabio going very fast. We saw Fabio at Silverstone, but the last few races Pecco has always started at the top and now he has a new stage so we’ll see how it goes,” explained Alex Espargaro.

“I haven’t been able to start from pole position lately, but I still got a good result.”in that sense, it’s not a new scenario for me,” he argued.

“Analyzing the difference in speed between Fabio’s Yamaha and my Aprilia in Aragon and here, I don’t see much difference.Ducati has grown a lot or lost at one point, but the Yamaha and Aprilia have very similar speeds and if he thinks he will struggle to overtake, it’s not so easy for me.” admitted Espargaro.

“It’s always hard to overtake here in Japan.”But luckily we can make a bit of a difference in the second and third sectors of the bend, where Aprilia works very well and can plan overtaking. Right,” Espargaro said of Quartararo’s acknowledgment of the difficulty of overtaking.

Regarding the performance of Marc Marquez Referring to this, Aleix Espargaro assured that he did not believe that “he could not endure the entire race.” i see him better than everAfter the last maneuver he has speed in the dry and wet and it’s a circuit he likes…I don’t know why he doesn’t try to hold on. Both he and Binder are off to very explosive race starts, which can benefit us, so I think it’s good that he’s out front.

“Fine. It goes fast and doesn’t become a stopperMy feeling is that tomorrow Marc will start full steam ahead to win. If you don’t have the speed you can care, but he’s shown it in both the dry and the wet so if he stretches the race from the start it’s good,” said the Aprilia rider. said.