168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Aleix Espargaro says he ‘couldn’t be happier’ that 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jorge Martin will take over his Aprilia seat for MotoGP 2025.

Although Espargaro is switching to Honda test riding dutie✃s after retiring at the end of this season, he took a personal interest in securing good friend Martin’s signature at Aprilia.

“I couldn’t b💫e happier. My best friend and the leader of the championship will be riding my bike next year,” Espargaro said.

“He🍬 had some doubts. He had another very good option on the table. He came to my motorh✅ome. After the [Mugello] race we spent 5 hours talking. He asked many things technically.

“Then obviously he was quite disappointed withꦡ Ducati, so he was ver🔥y interested on the human side, how is the team. He saw how happy I am, how much I enjoy these years with Aprilia. So it was quite easy to convince him.

“On the Monday morning [aftꩲer Mugello], I said to Massimo [Rivola] ‘prepare the contract, he’s convinced’. Everybody was very happy in Aprilia.”

But having spent his entire MotoGP career on a Duc𒐪ati at Pramac, what will Martin need to adapt to most on the RS-GP?

“He [will have] a very, very strong bike♊,” Espargaro said. “It’s different from♊ the Ducati. At Ducati, they ride a lot with the throttle. With the Aprilia, you can push a lot with the front brake.

“Jorge is a rider who loves to ride with the front brake. They have𝓀 some locking problems with the Ducati on the brakes so also this will be easier on the Aprilia.

“Maybe o🦩n the engine side he will struggle a bit more because the Aprilia is not as strong. But when you’re talented, i🌊t’s a bike: An engine, two wheels and full gas!”

Espargaro is adamant that Aprilia couldn't have done bette🍒r than Martཧin.

“Nuജmber 1. He’s the best one! I mean, wꦍho else can you take?" Espargaro said.

"He’s leading the championship. He’s angry at his manufacturer at how they treat him. He’s super 𓆉hungry to win with a new brand. He’s young, a good guy. He’s learning from the best, like me! [laughs]

“I think Aprilia has been lucky and Jorge has been 🌳lucky to find each other.”

Espargaro also believes the rider-manufacturer res﷽huff𝐆le will make the championship more balanced.

“I think it’s going to be very int൩eresting,” heꦚ said.

“Ducati, with the strategy they take [picking Marc Marquez but losing Jorge Martin, Enea Bastianini and Marco Bezzecchi], whic♊h I respect, they helped a lot the other manufacturers.

“KTM is going to b𓆏e super strong. Aprilia is going to be strong. With really m🧸otivated riders in both KTM and in Aprilia. [Ducati are going] to lose two bikes.

“We’re going to balance the championship.”

Espargaro's team-mate Mav🍸erick Vinales is also leaving Aprilia, for Tech3 K🀅TM next season.

Martin starts this weekend’s Germanꦚ MotoGP with a ten-point lead over Ducati’s reigning world cha♓mpion Francesco Bagnaia.