Marquez made heavy contact with Aprilia’s Espargaro at Flip 1 on the opening lap of the red-flagged Styrian GP on Sunday, which left the latter totally livid on monitor.
Within the second begin, the pair made contact once more at Flip 1, although on this event Marquez was compelled into the aspect of the Aprilia rider after Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo carved up the within of the pair of them.
Espargaro dropped down the order to sixteenth after that contact and finally retired with an engine problem.
He expressed anger at the race stewards for not handing out a penalty to Marquez, however the Honda rider doesn’t imagine the collisions had been over the restrict and feels the blame is 50/50 throughout the incidents.
“We all know Aleix,” Marquez stated when requested by Autosport if Espargaro’s feedback had been an overreaction. “If I must complain about all of the contacts, what can I do?
“In Holland he touched me within the final chicane and I almost crashed and I by no means complained.
“Right here, additionally within the first race I had large contact, [Joan] Mir tried to overhaul me and I had large contact, he touched me and I didn’t complain.
“I imply, that is racing. After which it’s true – and all the time I attempt to communicate actually – within the first race, if anyone made a mistake it was me as a result of he went slightly bit large and I’m going in as a result of in that nook should you simply have a doubt it’s simple that anyone can come and make up a variety of positions.
“So, I’m going in, I didn’t count on to have such an enormous contact however it was there.
“And in the second, it was his mistake.
“I began higher than him, I used to be in an excellent place, within the brake level I used to be parallel with him.
“However he launched the brakes and went in, however Quartararo was inside and we had contact. However first race my mistake, second race his mistake.”
Marc Marquez, Repsol Honda Crew
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Marquez ran contained in the main group within the first race earlier than the purple flag, however struggled instantly on the restart with grip having modified tyres and will no higher than eighth.
“Positively within the first race, the potential and the efficiency was very excessive, I felt superb,” he added. “All weekend my tempo was 1m24s center, 1m24s low. I imply, the primary race I used to be using in an excellent approach, very snug.
“However within the second race, already on the out-lap and the primary lap I realised that one thing was not in an accurate approach.
“The bike was the identical, we solely modified the tyres from race one to race two, and in race two from the out-lap the grip was zero and I struggled all of the race with rear grip, even stopping and exiting the nook.
“It’s true the one change was the tyres however we are able to’t complain solely in regards to the tyres, we should perceive as a result of everyone has the identical compounds, identical tyres.
“But it surely’s true from one tyre to the opposite one we are able to lose some efficiency. Perhaps that was the primary purpose at this time.”