With 23 laps to go in the long race of the Thai Grand Prix, there was an intense moment between Fabio Quartararo and Franco Morbidelli, with the Yamaha rider ending up on the ground.
Morbidelli admitted his mistake and explained that he didn’t want to overtake at that moment, and that from that point on his own race went downhill.
The Pramac Racing rider regretted what happened to his former teammate: ‘It was a huge shame. I was trying to recover, I was being very fast and trying to recover my starting position and trying to make my way up as quickly as possible but with Fabio I made a mistake, I really didn’t want to overtake him but he braked a little earlier than me and at a certain point I said: «I have to go and hope he sees me», but he didn’t.’
After that moment, his own race transformed, entering a negative spiral, as he considered:
– I probably arrived too late, we touched and he ended up on the ground and this ruined his race and started the negative spiral for my own race because I had to serve a long lap and then to recover from that long lap I made a small mistake and ended up on the ground. Turn 8 was very slippery today.