MotoGP Germany: Espargaro ‘angry with himself and strategy’

Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro put the disappointment of Barcelona far behind him as he arrived at the Sachsenring searching for points.

With the help of a few rides of a different kind, some time out with the family and a fresh outlook as the MotoGP season meets the halfway stage, Espargaro pinpointed more than just his last lap mistake that cost him the potential of challenging for a home win last time out.

“Yes, for sure I will try to forget as soon as I jump on the bike tomorrow, FP1,” Espargaro said of his premature celebrations at Catalunya. “But I have to say that this time I struggled more to forget. On Sunday night I couldn’t sleep, the test was very difficult for me on Monday, but also Tuesday/Wednesday I was training with the bicycle - the thing that I love the most of my life - and I couldn’t stop thinking about the mistake.

“I was angry with myself because I tried to repeat to myself that ‘is just a human mistake, it can happen, forget it’, but I couldn’t. So then I decide at the last moment to do a trip to Euro Disney with my kids. To forget the diet, to don’t train for two days and to have fun and it worked really, really well.

“I disconnect and now I’m back, I completely forget what happened in Barcelona. It was just a stupid mistake but when you are fighting for the title as this year, you know it’s everything bigger. So hopefully I can recover some points here in Germany

“I was quite angry after the race,’ he continued on a frustrating race strategy that saw both mechanics and Michelin technicians apprehensive of the aggressive Spaniard’s tyre life. “Apart from my mistake, also with myself, with the job we did and to my team. “Obviously, they want the best for themselves and for myself, that’s the truth. This