Near-contact Zarco-Aleix Espargaró: Ducati’s reaction.

Sparks between Ducatista Zarco and Aprilia rider Aleix Espargaró during free practice in Austria

Sparks between Ducati centaur Johann Zarco and Aprilia rider Aleix Espargaró during MotoGp’s third free practice session in Austria: the Spanish rider, who narrowly missed the top ten and access to Q2, brushed dangerously against the Frenchman from the Pramac team as he was returning to the track.

“I think it’s a misunderstanding, he was on the white line and Zarco couldn’t go anywhere else – are the words of Davide Tardozzi -. When Aleix passed him he was on the white line. Where was he supposed to go? Let’s not create another drama because Johann is always in the middle of these things. It seems to me that Espargarò got up a little bit on the saddle and moved his butt toward Zarco to graze him.”