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Pol Espargaro: Last six laps were blind!
Last year, Jorge Lorenzo famously suffered vision problems due to a helmet issue in the closing stages of the Qatar MotoGP. Sunday's 2016 season-opener saw Pol Espargaro struck by similar symptoms, although rather than the helmet lining obscuring his view - as happened to Lorenzo - the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 rider was 'blinded' by sweat on his visor reflecting under the floodlights. “By the end of the race I had a problem with the helmet. All the sweat went onto the visor and with the light it was impossible to see,” Espargaro explained. “So my last six laps were like blind! “I tried to keep the pace and finish the race. but I did a lot of mistakes, Bradley caught me again and just...
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