Fermin Aldeguer feels ‘unlucky’ about controversial MotoGP rule that helped Marc Marquez at Silverstone

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Fermin Aldeguer backed up his career-best qualifying result with fifth on the grid for the British Grand Prix, but the Gresini rookie left Silverstone ‘not entirely satisfied’.

The 20-year-old enjoyed a euphoric visit to Le Mans earlier this month, as Aldeguer qualified fourth for the French Grand Prix before sealing podium finishes with P3 in the Sprint and the feature race. Yet last weekend’s British GP did not prove to be as rewarding for the Spaniard.

Aldeguer fell from fifth on the grid to P14 in the Silverstone Sprint after making contact with Pedro Acosta of KTM whilst fighting for P8 on the final lap. He would also only take P8 in the British GP after Luca Marini of Honda was one of four riders hit with a tyre pressure penalty.

Gresini gem Aldeguer fell as far down the order as P14 in the British GP before recovering to P9 on the road by the chequered flag. A poor start saw the Murcian fall back to eighth in the opening corners, and even to P14 on the second lap, before benefitting from others retiring.

Fermin Aldeguer feels ‘unlucky’ that the British Grand Prix was stopped by a red flag

His plight in the British GP left Aldeguer feeling ‘unlucky’, having moved up to third place in the initial attempt at staging Sunday’s race at Silverstone. He had a much stronger start and gained early from Gresini teammate Alex Marquez and Ducati rider Marc Marquez crashing.

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But oil from the VR46 Ducati of Franco Morbidelli after being hit by Honda’s test rider Aleix Espargaro saw red flags stop the British GP on Lap 2 of 20. As three laps of the race had not been completed, all riders were also allowed to rejoin the British GP for the restarted race.

Fans were stunned by MotoGP’s red flag restart rules at Silverstone, with many questioning how the Marquez brothers were allowed to start from their original grid positions after the pair crashed. Aldeguer also admits he felt ‘unlucky’ after he then struggled in the British GP.

Aldeguer said after the British GP, via Motosan: “Well, we can be happy because we can say we achieved our objective, which was to fight for the top 10.

“It’s true that I’m not entirely satisfied with the potential we had [or] the result we achieved both yesterday in the Sprint and today in the long race. I was feeling fine before the red flag, just a bit unlucky that the race was stopped.”

Fermin Aldeguer must regret his own mistakes as well as the red flag after struggling at Silverstone

Gresini ace Aldeguer was running in fourth place when Marc Marquez crashed from the lead of the British GP at Silverstone during the initial attempt at staging the race. The 20-year-old also had a modest advantage over Pramac Yamaha rider Jack Miller in P5 before the red flag.

But after what would have been P3 without there being oil from Morbidelli’s VR46 Ducati on the track at the Vale chicane, Aldeguer failed to replicate his performance in what would be the actual British GP. Yet the red flag was not the only reason for his disappointing weekend.

Aldeguer made an array of mistakes in the Silverstone Sprint, which saw him fall backwards and only finish in P14 last Saturday. He also made a few costly errors in the actual British GP last Sunday after struggling to manage the high winds that hit the Northamptonshire circuit.