Aleix Espargaró was the third fastest rider on the first day of the Indian MotoGP GP this Friday. The rider was only 0.051s behind the leader, held by Luca Marini (Mooney VR46 Racing Team/Ducati).
The Spanish rider from Aprilia admitted that it’s a track different from his expectations, aind if it weren’t for a few corners, their performance could be dominant: ‘Not bad. I was expecting a track more like Qatar, Argentina, Malaysia. But it’s really different from what I expected: it’s more America, really tight corners, first and second [gear] a lot of time. I think if we didn’t have the corners one, three and maybe the last corner, we could dominate like in Barcelona. But we still lost a little bit of time in the apex. But overall, for the rest the bike is working good’.
In Espargaró’s opinion, the first corner is particularly challenging to do: ‘I went out of track ten times. It’s strange, because in corner one if you brake one meter later than the reference, you pay 100 meters – you go really, really wide. It’s difficult; corner one is like ice’.