MotoGP | Bastianini: there is a yellow on the checkered flag

The Sachsenring has probably been the most complicated weekend of the season so far for Enea Bastianini. Despite being the one placed best in the World Championship among the Ducati riders, with his third place, the Gresini Racing rider was also the only standard bearer of the Borgo Panigale company to miss access to Q2.

Complications were not lacking, because he found himself having to face the German Grand Prix without having at his side the technical chief Alberto Giribuola, forced to stay at home due to COVID-19 and replaced by the telemetry operator Sergio Verbena. Furthermore, in these two days he has never managed to establish the right feeling with the front of his Desmosedici GP. “I do not deny that without ‘Pajamas’ (Giribuola’s nickname) we struggle”, admitted Aeneas bluntly.

On his 17th place on the grid, however, there is also a yellow linked to the checkered flag. According to the transponder, “Bestia” took it before starting a lap that would have taken him to Q2 and probably would have completely changed his face on his Saturday, but the rider from Rimini swears that when he crossed the finish line there was not yet the commissioner to wave it. . For this reason he had also asked the Race Direction for a clarification, which however confirmed his position.

“I was angry, because I didn’t take the flag and tried to make my lap. I did 1’20” 3, so I would have moved on to Q2. I was very angry, then the communication came that I took it for a thousandth. But I hadn’t seen the flag and I shot, so I’m really angry “, explained Bastianini at the end of the day.

Enea Bastianini, Gresini Racing

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When asked if he was really sure that the flag wasn’t there, he added: “I didn’t take it, but the transponder counts. But the marshall wasn’t there.”

From the 17th position of the starting grid everything will be complicated, also because on the German track it is very difficult to overtake. Furthermore, his main rivals in the race for the title are all in the first two rows.

“I would be happy to limit the damage, trying to make a decent recovery. But I also don’t have to be in too much of a hurry, because we have seen that haste can ruin everything, so we have to take things calmly,” he said of the strategy to be implemented tomorrow. making a clear reference to the two zero from which he returned to Mugello and Barcelona.