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

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Augusto Fernandez is open about his contract worry as the rid🦂eꦉr market gets interesting.
The Tech3 GASGAS rider is into his second season in MotoGP.
But his stunning new teammate, Pedro Acosta, has set the bar incredibly high 💯and created a diff🃏icult situation for Fernandez.
While Acosta has twice been on the podium, Fernandez has struggled this yearও sꦫo far.
😼He has finished 17th, 11th and 14th in the thr🔯ee grands prix before this weekend’s Spanish MotoGP.
🍌“We need to [resolve this] now,” Fernandez said about his below-p🍌ar form.
“We need to sign contracts, to keep on…
“I would love to stay on the ꦚsame bike next year because I believe in the proje๊ct.
“I want to show them - prove to them - that I am a♊ winner, and that I can win with their bike.”
Fernandez’s co🦩ntract expires at the end of this season.
KTM, meanwhile, have Brad Binder secured longer-term an💛d are believed to have an option to keep Acosta.
Last year when Acosta demanded a promotion after winni𒉰ng Moto2, it was originally thought that Fern💯andez would be sacrificed.
Instead, in a huge show of faith, KTM rewa🍨rded Fernandez with a new contract for 2024 and demoted Pol Espargaro.
The 2022 Moto2 champion ꦐFernandez 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 performa♛nce.
“Iꦚ want to win. I’m here to win,” Fernandez insisted.
“I’m world champion and I work to win. So I do𒅌n’t like to be at the back of the grid.
“We expꦏected 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 stꦅart of the season with the new bike, with the experience.
“I am🦄 struggling to ꧃even get the 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 ye🙈ar very good, a couple of years bad.
“But I always come back.
“I don’t feel good with the bike. But I see potential. I see that the 𒁏bike i⭕s better.
“I see what the rest 🔥are doing wit🅰h the bike. So, no excuses.
“I need to find my base with the bike, and get my speed ba⛦ck.
“It’s a relief, kind of🐈. Because of course, I need to do it. But the🔯 bike can do these things.
“I am open to chaꦿnge whatever. I want to be⭕ there. I want to win.”
The presence of Fernandez’s new teammate Aco🦹sta has complicated matters🎃.
But Fernand💎ez insists that🌄 being so dramatically outperformed could work in his favour.
“Luckily we have Pedro in the same box, going very fast sin🎃ce preseason,” Fernandez said.
“So I am able to compare things, understand a little bit quicker what I am missing, what I need, or don’t need, or where I am alre♔ady fast.
“Having fast teammates is bad for one thing, because it is a lot of fight. But it’s good to recover wheꦜn you are lost.
“ꦛYou can recover quick💟er when you have these kinds of teammates.”
Fernandez is one of many riders heading into their home race, the Spanish MotoGP at Jerez, this weekend as the European leg of th♌e MotoGP sꦚeason begins.

James was a sportsღ journalist at Sky Sports 🅠for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.