The First Grand Prix of the year in Qatar has passed, and, before embarking on the second round in Argentina next weekend, we distribute the good and bad points at KTM. He is the patron saint of sports in Mattighofen, Pete Beirer, who is responsible for the rating, with this method which consists of talking about disappointments while praising satisfactions. Pol Espargaro was thus rehabilitated and he is the team member of Johann zarco. Now he is knighting Miguel Oliveira, the pilot of the Tech3 satellite team, well supervised and who was the same Zarco's team for two seasons with a Yamaha. Exactly…
At KTM, positions are always to be followed. Pete Beirer is indeed not the type to be careful when it is necessary to convey certain messages. This time it's on the case Olive tree that he leaned over. A subject which allows him to tackle another… He begins like this: “ Miguel Oliveira's performance is very satisfying. But it also shows that there is something fundamentally wrong with the whole thing we have with Johann Zarco. Because it is not normal for a beginner who comes from Moto2 to show himself at the same level or even sometimes better ».
He pursues : " Miguel gives us exactly what we need when things are going well. He does his job excellently. He was very calm during the offseason tests. In Valencia, in November, he was three seconds off the best time, but that didn't bother him that much. He then got a little closer each time. In Qatar, he was only 0.880 seconds behind Marc Márquez's best time at the end of FP3. These are just episodes that don't earn any points but it shows his progress which now puts him a second away from the best ».
« We have fun working with Miguel. And we hope the best is yet to come with him in MotoGP " finished Pete Beirer. We will recall that under the checkered flag of Losail, John Zarco, who is always implied in these remarks, finished fifteenth with a point while the Portuguese Moto2 world vice-champion concluded his performance seventeenth, without a single point.
And since we're talking about Tech3, Pete Beirer sows trouble by answering a question from speedweek on Guy Coulon, chief engineer, who could be requested at his side by the Frenchman… “ I don't know. When they meet, they speak in French, and I don't speak that language "...
