Pol Espargaro has admitted relief at not racing ful꧋l-time this year due to the physical toll of injuries.

Espargaro’s 10 seasons as a MotoGP rider were ended by KTM’s decision to replace him with Pedro Acosta in their Tech3 GASGAS projec⛦t this season.

His 2023 was blighted by an awful crash in🌌 Portimao on the first weekend which resulted in jaw, spine and lung injuries.

He will be a test and reꦗserve rider for KTM in 2024.

“Become a MotoGP ღrider again? Phew, well I don't know,” he ཧtold .

“Honestly, 🃏in the tests I looked good and I fe൩el fast.

“And, furthermore, I am recovering my optimal physical condition, which i🐲s what I lost after the injury.

“In any case, God will say.”

But the injurie♊s suffered a year ago have changed Espargaro’s mind-set slightly.

“When you are young yo♐u forget 🐬it quickly,” he said.

“But as you get older it is a backpack that ✅gets heavier and heavier.

“When you get up you notice pain thꦑat you didn't have, and that is🧔 due to falls you have had.

“I have to confess that in🔴 many moments I do f෴eel relieved to no longer race full time.

“To giv🦹e an example, I spoke🐼 with my brother who fell at turn 5 in Qatar doing the fastest lap.

“He was going very well and he felᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚl and he said to me: 'I hit a terrible blow, my hand hurts a lot, I think I have suffered a fracture and I have to get up in weeks to see how I do...'

“Well, I don't miss that.

“Maybe what everyone sees on television is the races, the atmosphere✨, the public, I'm going to 🎶miss that a lot.

“But the injuries, the stre✅ss, the traumas and the confrontations with rivals, no, one cannot miss it.

“In short, right now I'm fine the way I am.”

Espargaro, as well as his new role as a test and resꩲerve rider, will also work as a TV presenter for DAZN who broadcast MotoGP in Spain.

It is a💦 role which Dani Pedrosa and Jorge Lorenzo already hold🔴.

“It's going🏅 to be a little different from Dani's b🔯ecause I'm going to be at the races.

“My role as a commentator at the races is to bring the technical field a little close🀅r to people's homes because we're seeing lately how motorcycles look more and more like F1 with more aerodynamics and more technical ♏gadgets on the bike.

“That is often very difficult to understand. “People may not know why a rider in the middle of the race starts to slow down and slows d꧋own and is overtaken by another competitor.

“Or how factories work and why a factory works better on one circuit and not on another, a🍬nd perhaps all that is technical can be brought a little closer to the viewer from the circuit🍸.

“I think it is a very interesting job.”