This wasn’t the Sunday we expected

Race day at the Autodromo Internazionale del Mugello will be one to forget for sure, after both Red Bull KTM Tech3’s Maverick Viñales and Enea Bastianini crashed out early in the race, calling it for an early end to our adventure in Tuscany. While he was battling out for 4th after a solid start, there was nothing Viñales could do when Franco Morbidelli made a way-too-aggressive move on the Spaniard, and caused him to crash. Morbidelli was handed one long lap penalty for irresponsible riding, an insufficient punishment, looking at how much it cost Viñales, clearly on course for big points today. Teammate Bastianini crashed out of the last corner in the opening lap, so the Italian dream was sadly over quickly for the local hero.

“Our start was good, but in the end of the first lap we found ourselves in a battle with Johann Zarco after struggling to go past Raul Fernandez. We both arrived very fast to the last corner, I was on the inside, he was outside, and I lost the front when I released the brakes. I had recovered many positions in the first lap because I wanted to do a great result here, but in the end, that was it for me. I think we made some good improvements this weekend, it was positive for us. It was important to get a good result, for myself, for the team, for the morale, but we will try again next week.”