2023-10-06 15:17:11
The pilot Catalan Pol Espargaró32 years old, Moto2 world champion (2013) and one of the most brilliant pilots of his generation and of the last two decades, has made the decision, in the company of the firm rubbingto step aside and resign from his contract official MotoGP rider that he had left (2024) with the mother company of the Catalan brand, the Austrian KTMbecoming, together with The days of Pedrosaas a test driver for his current brand, as well as a reserve driver to compete in half a dozen grand prix in 2024, either at the invitation of the organizers or as a substitute for some of the four official drivers of the Austrian factory.
Step to Acosta
‘Polyccio’ has made this decision for various reasons, one of them is tremendously praiseworthy because it is about leaving room for the Murcian pilot Pedro Acosta, Moto3 world champion and, probably, new Moto2 world champion, who will race with his GasGas next season. In this way, the ‘Mazarrón shark’ He already knows where he will race in 2024, since Acosta had even recently commented that “I might have to repeat in Moto2.”
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Along with that beautiful gesture, tremendously generous on the part of the youngest of the Espargaró brothers, it must be added that ‘Polyccio’ comes from a very, very injury, so much so that he needed more than four months of treatment, breaking his jaw and several vertebrae. Pol Espargaró’s return has not been easy, even he himself has acknowledged that the most difficult thing is for his brain to get used to driving at more than 350 kilometers per hour.
Agreed discard
‘Polyccio’, much loved in the MotoGP paddock, is still not entirely clear about his future, although everything seems to indicate that he will continue as a test rider and also, probably, as an ambassador for the KTM brand, the parent company of GasGas. It was evident that with five riders on the payroll in 2024, due to Acosta’s recent promotion to MotoGP, KTM had to discard one of them and, in the end, it was ‘Polyccio’ who made things easier for KTM, offering his seat and GasGas to the ‘Mazarrón shark’, 19 years old, who, like Àlex Márquez already did, will debut in the top category after winning the two lower titles, something that not all MotoGP riders have achieved.
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