Contract worry admission from at-risk MotoGP rider as silly season starts
“I see what the rest are doing with the bike. 🍎So, no excuses"

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Augusto Fernandez is open a🌟bout his contract worry as the rider market gets intere💦sting.
The Tech3 GASGAS rider is into his second season in MotoGP.
But his stunning new teammate, Pedro𝄹 Acosta, has set the bar incredi🅷bly high and created a difficult situation for Fernandez.
While Acosta has twice been🍌 on the podium, Fernandez has struggled this year so far.
He has finished 17th, 11th and 14th in the three grands 🌸prix before this weekend’s Spanish MotoGP🔴.
“We need to [resolve thisꦗ] now,” Fernandez said about his below-par form.
“We need to sign contracts, to keep on…
“I would love🌳 to stay on the same bike next year because I believe in the project.
“I want꧅ to show them - prove to them - that I am a winner, and that I can win with their bike.”
Fernandez’s contract expi💎res at the end of this season.
KTM, meanwhile, have Brad Binder s✃ecured longer-term and are believed to have an option to keep Acosta.
Last year when Acosta demandܫed a promotion aft🐟er winning Moto2, it was originally thought that Fernandez would be sacrificed.
Instead, in a huge show of faith, KTM rewarded Fernandez with a new contract for 2024 and demoteꦅd Pol Espargaro.
The 2022𝄹 Moto2 champion Fernandez has therefore seen first-hand that KTM can be ruthless when making contract calls.
The key, he knows, is to sort out his on-track p🎃erfor🌃mance.
“I want🥀 to win. I’m here ꦏto win,” Fernandez insisted.
“I’m world champion and I work to win. So I don’t like to 𒅌be at ꦇthe back of the grid.
“We 𝔉expected a lot better. Because we finished the season not bad.
I was close to the top KTM quite a lot of times.
“So I expected a lot more for the st♏art of the season with the new bike, with the experience.
“I am struggling ཧto even get th♑e speed. I don’t have the speed yet.
“In the past I have faced this kind of situation.
“My career has been like this - one year very good, a c♓ouple of y🍎ears bad.
“But I always come back.
“I don’t feel good with the bike. But I see potential. I se♉e that the bike is better.
“I see what the reᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚst are doinღg with the bike. So, no excuses.
“I need to find my base with the bike, and get ꦇmy speed back.
“It’s a relief, kind of. Because of course, I need to do it. But t⭕he bike cౠan do these things.
“I am o🐻pen to ch🐬ange whatever. I want to be there. I want to win.”
The presence ♛of Fernandez’s new teammate Acost🍌a has complicated matters.
But Fernandez insists that being so dramatically outperformed could work in꧑ his favour.
“Luckily we have Pedro in the same box, gꩵoing very fa𝔉st since preseason,” Fernandez said.
“So I am able to compare things,ꦜ understand a little bit quicker what I am missing, what I need, or don’t need, or where I am already fast.
“Having fast teammates is bad for one thing, because it is a lot of fight. But it’s good to recover when you ar෴e lost.
“You can recover quicker when you have these kinds of teamma꧂tes💜.”
Fernandez is one of many riders heading intꦑo the🍌ir home race, the Spanish MotoGP at Jerez, this weekend as the European leg of the MotoGP season begins.

James was a sports joღurnalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything fꦆrom American sports, to football, to F1.