A week ago, the Lenovo Race of Champions was marked by a crash on the final corner between Marc Márquez and Nicolò Bulega as they fought for third place in this exhibition race at the World Ducati Week. The incident, which resulted in Bulega’s fall, generated some controversy and discussion about whether Márquez was at fault.
Speaking to GPOne.com, the current second-place rider in the World Superbike Championship said that he has moved on from the issue, confirming that he received an apology message from Márquez:
– I think there’s very little to say. I don’t want to fuel any more controversy, as in my opinion, there has already been too much. On Saturday night, after the race, Marc came looking for me in the garage, but I had already gone home after being at the medical center. Later, he sent me a message apologizing and saying that, unfortunately, he had made a mistake. For me, the matter was closed, and that was the end of it.
In Bulega’s view, Márquez’s gesture of offering him his helmet was already an acknowledgment of the mistake: ‘In fact, now I am a journalist, and I ask: do you think that if an eight-time world champion believed he hadn’t made any mistake, he would have given me his helmet? I believe the helmet is already the answer’.