Regardless of being taken out of the Austin dash race by Marc Marquez on Saturday, in-form VR46 Ducati man Fabio Di Giannantonio had zero curiosity in dwelling on the incident afterwards.
The Italian had certified on pole place for the second straight weekend, solely to be punted out of third place by a crashing Marquez halfway via the primary lap.
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Marquez will face an extended lap penalty in Sunday’s grand prix because of the incident. He was clearly responsible and admitted as a lot.
“I at all times attempt to be truthful,” mentioned the seven-time world champion. “I did a mistake and I have to have a penalty. Tomorrow I’ll try this penalty.”
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Di Giannantonio’s dash misfortune couldn’t be undone by any penalty, after all, however he was decided to maintain the larger image in thoughts forward of the US GP.
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“There are too many positives,” mentioned the Roman rider, who will line up first once more on Sunday. “I haven’t got time to be offended…”
“I am at among the finest tracks on the earth, driving in opposition to the most effective and ranging from pole place, [breaking] the observe file just some hours in the past. So how can somewhat episode destroy all that, ?
“It is just a bit impediment on our option to attempt to win races. Tomorrow, we have now one other likelihood, so the main focus is de facto on that.
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“I believe we have executed [too] many optimistic and nice issues on observe to focus solely on that individual second of the dash.”
Marquez and Di Giannantonio traded a number of phrases in between their press briefings
Marquez and Di Giannantonio traded a number of phrases in between their press briefings
One other optimistic Di Giannantonio shall be comfortable to dream about was his move on Marquez just some moments earlier than the race-ending incident. That got here at Flip 7, within the coronary heart of the troublesome collection of S-bends early within the lap. It additionally had echoes of his satisfying transfer on Marquez in Brazil every week earlier.
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“I am tremendous happy with that one,” he grinned. “You recognize, it is not a simple move on anyone [there]. You go from the suitable to the left, you must be actually exact as a result of there are a whole lot of bumps and completely different inclination of the observe. So I am happy with that one, above all.”
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