Espargaro disappointed to lose CRT lead after difficult weekend

The main favourite for victory at Sachsenring was Dani Pedrosa, and he proved to be the winner in the German Grand Prix this Sunday. The race was primarily a battle between the Spaniard and teammate Casey Stoner, in which both riders established an advantage over the rest of the field and then diced for victory with one another. In five laps they had already dropped the pace to 1’22, with a gap of nearly fifteen seconds over those behind. Pedrosa looked to pass his teammate at the start of lap nineteen, but the battle went down to the wire. After various changes at the front, Stoner crashed out on the penultimate turn and dropped twenty championship points. Pedrosa won from Jorge Lorenzo and Andrea Dovizioso.

Just one point behind Randy De Puniet in the championship is now teammate Aleix Espargaró. The two POWER ELECTRONICS Aspar riders are almost inseparable in the class, but today the Spaniard was unable to find the best setup for normal conditions following the rain of the weekend. He did, however, ride well enough around such issues to place thirteenth.

13th Aleix Espargaró: “Today’s was a tough race, because we didn’t have the bike as well setup for the conditions as for in the rain. We had barely ridden in the dry this weekend and paid the price for that. I pushed as hard as I could at the start, but the bike wasn’t going as well as we wanted, I lacked front end feel and was finding it hard to hold my line on the fast corners. I kept a fast pace up to try and hold position, but Colin got past me at the end. We lost some points and it is disappointing, just like in Holland. Randy has moved ahead of us, but things are very even. We have to keep fighting to continue our good form.”

Source: Aspar Team Press Release