Honda rider Marquez pressured Espargaro off observe with an aggressive lunge at Flip 1 on the unique begin to the race earlier than it was red-flagged for a fiery crash between Espargaro’s Aprilia team-mate Lorenzo Savadori and KTM wildcard Dani Pedrosa.
Espargaro expressed his anger with Marquez on their lap again to the pits underneath pink flag situations, earlier than the pair touched once more at Flip 1 on the restart – the Aprilia rider as soon as once more pressured off observe.
He finally retired with an engine problem however was left indignant with how the race stewards dealt with the state of affairs, whereas not pointing the blame at Marquez as a result of “each race he overtakes like this”.
“About Marquez I can’t blame him, I imply there’s no level, Marc is Marc,” he mentioned. “Each race he overtakes like this from the final 10 years.
“What I need to blame is the stewards panel. I don’t know, possibly they have been watching the final days of the Olympics.
“Marquez determined the actions he does within the race, everyone is free to do no matter he needs, however the stewards panel should penalise.
“I imply, there was no room in any respect, he hit me particularly within the first one very robust on the arm and I used to be out of the observe.
“It was fortunate as a result of [Alex] Rins was there and I may have made a giant mess there.
“And within the second it’s the identical, I imply let’s see if race course will do one thing as a result of should you see an motion like this you penalise, that’s it.
“It’s why now we have the principles. However what makes me very indignant is we penalise when one rider makes one other crash, however what now we have to penalise is the motion – it doesn’t matter the consequence.
“If right now I hit Rins and we each crashed, then it could be a crash.
“However as a result of no person crashed we don’t have a penalty. Why do now we have the stewards panel to do that? We don’t want it.”
Jorge Martin, Pramac Racing leads on the race restart
Photograph by: Gold and Goose / Motorsport Images
Espargaro additionally lamented a scarcity of communication between the stewards and riders, calling it “a warfare we can’t win”.
“I perceive nothing about their job, there isn’t any communication between the riders and the stewards panel,” he added.
“We blame them, each single rider, within the security fee however they aren’t there, we can’t converse with them, no person understands the penalties.
“It’s irritating nevertheless it’s a warfare we can’t win.”
Marquez will give his model of occasions to the media at 6:20pm native time.