Pol Espargaro: I’ll prove I deserve my two-year MotoGP deal, or move aside

Pol Espargaro is well aware that Pedro Acosta’s MotoGP move means KTM now has more riders than seats for 2024.
Pol Espargaro, GASGAS Tech 3 KTM MotoGP Portimao 2023
Pol Espargaro, GASGAS Tech 3 KTM MotoGP Portimao 2023

With 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Brad Binder and168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Jack Miller fixed at the factory Red Bull team for another season, Acosta is tipped to take over from either Espargaro or rookie team-mate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Augusto Fernandez at the GASGAS Tech3 squad.

On paper, Fernandez would need to make way since Espargaro has a two-♔year KTM contract, running until the end of 2024, while the reigning Moto2 champion is on a single-year deal.

But Espargaro has missed the entire first half of the season due to ten fractures at the Portimao opener🏅 and his main goal now is simply to come back 🦂and “prove that I still have some speed.”

And “if I don’t do enough results to stay here” then the Spaniard says he would consider a “move on the side and let a younger guy come in my ♊place.”

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“I have a t🍸wo-year contract,” Espargaro began. “I’ve been injured and not even thinking about this ♌[but] my contract is fixed until two years.

“Also KTM and GASGAS are not like a team at this moment, they are a family. I talk with P💧it [Beirer], with Hubert [Trunkenpolz] like they are my friends, honestly.

“We chat super open, like about how the riders are doing. They were telling me what they think about new riders꧃ coming. I talked 𒀰with them quite honestly and nice.

“So at the moment I’m just focussed on recovering ♕and coming back, but you know, my contract is still one year and a half in advance [to go].

“I just want to come back, do the r🔯esults, and show ꦅthem I need to stay.

“If I don’t do better results or enough results to deserve to be here, I would be gla🅠d to move on the side and let a you🧜nger guy come in my place.

“But at the moment, I will prove that 💃ꦚI still have some speed.”

However, there is now only one round (Sil♒verstone) before KTM's home Austrian GP, when✅ the factory is expected to announce its 2024 rider line-up.

There have already been whispers KTM might offer Espargaro a 2024 test and wild-card 🀅deal should ꦗhe need more time to recover from his injuries.

It’s also not out of the question that Fernandez - 14th in the world cꦺhampionship, with a best finish of fourt𝓰h - could be offered the MotoGP test and wild-card deal.

Other rumours suggest the 25-year-old might even be placed at a rival satellite team, after KTM's enquiries over the possibility of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Ajo team running Acosta in MotoGP cam🦋e to noth🎉ing.

Meanwhile, Espargaro will make his return to the RC16 during next weekend’s 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Goodwood Festival of Speed.

Then, if he passes the necessary medical checks, an official MotoGP comeback will take place at Silverstone in e𝓡arly August.

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