“I would say what happened was bad luck”: Luca Marini discusses his poor results in Assen TT
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2020 MotoGP World Championship runner-up Luca Marini has not been having a good run in this year’s MotoGP season as the Italian racer is down in the 15th spot in the points table. The Ducati racer got his highest finish in 2022 in the Deutschland Grand Prix that happened a couple of weeks ago when he attained the fifth spot behind Aprilia’s Aleix Espargarò.
In TT Assen, Luca Marini was hoping for some good Championship points as the Italian was still riding the high of coming fifth in the German GP, but his day took a sudden turn for the worse when Marini had a brief contact with Joan Mir at the very beginning of the race. The contact caused him to lose a part of his right front wing, and that affected the aerodynamics of Marini’s Ducati. Marini could still finish the race but he came seventeenth, which was an upsetting result for him after his P5 in the Deutschland Grand Prix.
“It was unrideable”: Luca Marini talks about his Ducati bike after his contact with Joan Mir’s Suzuki
While Ducati racer Luca Marini qualified tenth in Saturday’s Qualifying Session, he could not hold on to his points place, and fell down to the seventeenth spot due to a short contact that he had with Joan Mir. When Luca’s Ducati touched the back of Joan Mir’s Suzuki GSX-RR, the front right wing of the Ducati was damaged, and that slowed the Italian down.
While going over the tiny incident that spoiled Luca’s campaign in Assen, the Italian racer said, “The race didn’t go as I had hoped, but there is a reason. I had contact with Joan Mir at the start and lost part of the wing on the right side. And it’s just amazing how that affects the handling. I would say what happened was bad luck.”
Luca continued, “Maybe Assen is the worst track to have this problem because the speed in all parts of the track is quite high and the bike doesn’t do anything we want it to do. We want to stop the bike, but it doesn’t react well to braking… then in the fast corners, the bike is very unstable and requires you to do it at a much slower speed. Unfortunately, it was unrideable.”
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