Despite encountering some issues with his bike’s performance, particularly due to the extremely high temperatures affecting braking and causing wheel lock—especially at the front of the Aprilia RS-GP—Aleix Espargaró still considered the weekend generally positive given the overall speed shown by the Aprilia bikes in what he described as a “separate championship.”
‘I haven’t been able to do much. We know the temperature problem we have; we generate excessive heat, and the tire pressure skyrockets. From the second lap, I had no brakes […]. I couldn’t do practically anything, just finish the race as best as I could’ recalled the #41, who will become a Honda test rider next year.
Reflecting on his own performance and that of the other Aprilia bikes, Espargaró assured that it was a good result:
– Very positive. We were very competitive in terms of speed. It’s true I didn’t have brakes, and we could have gone a bit faster, but all the other Aprilia were within race distance. It’s a different championship where the top three or four riders are competing—they’re going very, very fast, and we can’t do much against that.
