The Spanish Aleix Espargaró (Aprilia RS-GP), called the fall he suffered while training on a bicycle on Thursday morning on the straight of the Mugello circuit, the scene of the Italian Grand Prix this weekend, as a “huge shit”. of MotoGP.
“It was a huge mess, one of the biggest I’ve done in my sports career, because I think that in the end falling training, for an athlete, and hurting yourself, is part of the game, but not on a Thursday in the most special grand prix for Aprilia and for using the fucking mobile phone,” acknowledged the Spanish rider.
“A huge shit and I felt very bad. I have apologized to the team a hundred times. My whole back is burned, my arms. That really doesn’t hurt much, but my heel is full of blood and it hurts like hell, much more than the time I hurt myself in England”, he explains about the damage suffered in the Espargaró mishap.
“With Charte we have tried to do everything, they have emptied all the blood that was there, they have infiltrated, but I cannot use the rear brake. I have to leave my foot resting on the footrest only with the tip, it is very difficult for me to ride. I hope every day improve and see if I’m fine on Sunday”, commented Aleix Espargaró who regretted again that “I was with my fucking mobile phone and I fell”.
“I was talking with WhatsApp, with Spoty. In fact, it was nine in the morning, I had made a very beautiful route with two ports, and there was a lot of fog in the parking lots and I said to myself ‘Bah! I’m staying here, than in Italy the roads…’. I was soaked with my mobile phone and I fell”, explained Aleix Espargaró in more detail, who acknowledged that “my right heel hurts a lot, much more than when I broke my bone in Silverstone”.
The Aprilia team leader said hopefully: “I hope it improves little by little and on Monday I’ll have an MRI to see if there’s something at the ligament level, or something that can’t be seen with the X-ray they did here. Then we’ll see. The truth is that I hoped that the infiltration would help me a little more, but it has not been like that”.
“This morning I woke up and all the burns and my back hurt almost more than my ankle, I could walk more or less well, but I got on the motorcycle and I hallucinated. In the right-hand corners I was not able to ride, and I told the team ‘I can’t ride’ And Antonio wanted to try something from the second bike, I went out with that second bike and I couldn’t move my foot, I only braked with the front brake and I blocked with that one and I fallen”, he explained very critical with himself.
“I didn’t go out again because I couldn’t drive, but in the afternoon I infiltrated, they took a lot of the blood that was there. They saw it with the ultrasound and they took my blood, I infiltrated, and it hasn’t improved much” , continued Aleix Espargaró, who despite everything got ninth place in the standings.
“In the right-hand corners, the only chance I have is to put my toe on the footrest and I can’t brake. If I brake, I see the stars, so the only thing I can do is keep my foot fixed and just use the brake front, and in the fast lap I went fast, it turned out like that, but I lose time not using the rear brake”, explained the Aprilia rider, who says he has “a feeling of shame with the team for having made an unacceptable mess. So I gave it my all today to try and get the bike into the top ten and do well this weekend.”
