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Aleix Espargaro explains Aragon MotoGP qualifying clash with brother

Aleix Espargaro says the collision with his brother Pol in qualifying for the MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix was a result of him having to avoid a slow Alex Marquez. Espargaro was on a flying lap ahead of Pol's KTM in the closing stages of qualifying when the latter ran into the side of the Aprilia rider at the final corner. Pol broke one of the wings from his fairing while Aleix's session was over owing to a hefty knock to his right ankle. Aleix was forced to sit up to avoid Marquez, leaving Pol with nowhere to go, and says "I don't really understand" why the Honda rider was going so slowly. "Well, it was not very strange," explained the Aprilia man after qualifying a...
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