Espargaro ‘arrived too late’ for Aragon MotoGP victory challenge

The Aprilia was expected to be in contention for victory coming to Aragon having taken some of the Italian marque’s best results of a season in previous years.

But two crashes on Friday and a difficult FP3 forced Espargaro into Q1, though he managed to sail through that session into Q2 and qualify a solid fourth.

Overtaking KTM’s Brad Binder on the last lap to take his…