The French from Tech3 will occupy the news of the next Austrian Grand Prix since KTM sports boss Pit Beirer promised that he would reveal at least one of the two names of the duo who will work with Hervé Poncharal in 2023. Nobody has no doubt that it will be that of Pol Espargaró who will thus celebrate two returns: that to KTM, a brand abandoned in 2019 because he thought that the grass would be greener at Repsol. And the one at Tech3, the team for which he rode from 2014 to 2016 with a Yamaha. Hervé Poncharal remembers it very well and is delighted to collaborate again with a born competitor. He insists on this point, which allows him to send a message to the departing...
Car Pol Espargaro will inevitably take the place of one of the French boss's two current drivers. A current duo who should listen carefully to what their current boss says on Pol Espargaro. He should indeed detect a message to them… We read thus on crash.net : " he's a guy who doesn't care what's going on around him, what bike he's riding, what track it's on or what the weather is like. He always gives 110% ". And Hervé adds: “ sometimes you don't have the best package, the winning one. But to get it, the engineers and the whole team need a driver who tries. If the driver already thinks 'my package can't win today', then he will ride at 90 or 95%, and that's not enough ».
That is what is said. Hervé Poncharal then focuses a little more on the one he will a priori have within his walls for the next two years: “ what I like about Pol is that he is always very enthusiastic. He still believes in it, it's something he made very clear at KTM. He's a guy who behaves like a leader, he always thinks 'we can do it and we will' ».
Hervé Poncharal: “ Pol Espargaró gave 120% to Yamaha, I remember there was some disappointment«
The Frenchman remembers the period when he worked with him during the first lease. Which allows him to slip information onto Yamaha ... " Pol expected to spend a year on the satellite team then be a factory driver the second year, that's more or less what he was told. But that didn't happen, and that was something that stuck with him, because he was doing pretty well for a rookie, and he even won the Suzuka 8 Hours. ».
« He gave 120% to Yamaha, I remember there was some disappointment, and at the same time, that's where you see this guy has character » ends the tricolor. “ KTM called him and offered him a contract. He had other options at that time, he could have stayed with us, or even gone to another builder who was already fighting to win, but he rejected them and said 'I like this project, because these people talk to me in cash, I'll go there' ". The other manufacturer not mentioned was then Suzuki. And back then, to be an official Yamaha , you still had to leave the factory Jorge Lorenzo ou Valentino Rossi...
