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MotoGP Austin: Redding, Espargaro at odds over crash

Scott Redding and Pol Espargaro are at odds over the crash that ended both their Austin MotoGP challenges yesterday with the Briton wondering why Espargaro was where he was, and the Spaniard believing Redding was an accident waiting to happen.

Redding had qualified in a career-best sixth place and was dicing with Jorge Lorenzo. After being pushed off the track, he says, he passed Espargaro on the brakes way before the apex of turn 11, then clipped Lorenzo and went down.

“Yeah, that’s was not what we were expecting. I had a good start, fighting with Lorenzo in the first corner, he passed me into two, I passed him into three and into four he literally threw it up the inside of me, not even trying to make the apex, so I ran off track, got back on,” said Redding, speaking in Austin.

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“Then I passed Pol into turn 11, went a bit deep, maybe a metre, nothing special. Lorenzo had been quite deep and he was coming back, I touched him, lost the front and that was the end of my day. I tried to get going but the bar was lose and peg was bent.

“I don’t know how Pol is blaming me because I had passed him on the brakes quite early so unless he released the brakes to come around the outside I don’t know how I ended up taking him out because I was past him. It’s a racing incident and it’s a bit shit that someone came down with me in that situation but it happens sometimes. Maybe I was a bit hot-headed.”

Espargaro offered this version of events: “Always when you don’t finish the race you are disappointed. I mean, at the end I can’t understand why it has happened. It never happened to me, I never did something like that. In the first lap, why you want to win the race, you have 20 laps remaining. If you are so good, so talented, you can come back, look at Valentino in Qatar, he were really far and he win the race.

“The thing is I can’t understand why it happened and how he make so many mistakes in one lap. He did. He was really close to crashing with Lorenzo in first corner, corner five he went wide, it was clear he was going to crash.”

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