MotoGP, Malaysia, Pol Espargaró: “the high temperatures trigger a nervous disorder in certain muscles on the left side of my body, it’s painful”

Pol Espargaró is preparing to experience a new ordeal this weekend during a Malaysian Grand Prix which will be his last as a starting rider in MotoGP. His employer Pierer Mobility Group has in fact decided to permanently sideline him from 2024 in order to make way for Pedro Acosta. He regrets it and has already said all the bad things he thinks about this Austrian governance. But the GASGAS driver also does not hide the fact that his physical condition, since returning from this terrible accident at the start of the season in Portimao, is still not what it was before, to the point that when temperatures rise, his abilities drop. However, it is still tropical conditions that he will have to face again this weekend in Sepang…

When Pol Espargaro Talk about this eighteenth meeting of the season who awaits him, we feel a certain apprehension: “ The week at home was really good for me after three races in a row. Indonesia and Thailand were very demanding due to high temperatures, and I felt them much more than usual with my current physical condition. I know Malaysia will be just as difficult, although I hope having a week off will help me feel better ».

Then he details his situation to make himself understood: “ Normally, in hot weather, muscles become larger and heavier. And I have disturbances in my body, disturbances in my work, as if certain nerves activate the muscles at the wrong time, and the recovery of these muscles is not very good, especially on the left side of my body. When it's this hot, I struggle more than when it's cold. At Phillip Island it was gentle, I didn't even feel tired. But every time it's hot, I feel like I'm struggling more than the others. I've never been very good in hot conditions, but now it's really tough. But it's like that ».

Pol Espargaro: “ when I stand straight you can see that the left shoulder is a little higher than the right »

Public chat crash.net, he adds : " the heat appears to trigger a “nerve disorder” in certain muscles on the left side of his body. It's a little painful…Like the whole left side of my body, when I stand straight you can see that the left shoulder is a little higher than the right Normally this is something that happens from the neck to the shoulder blade on the left side, it doesn't work very well ».

It sums : " when the conditions are normal I don't feel any big problem and I can ride the bike perfectly, but when the situation is difficult and it is at the limit, I reach this limit a little earlier than the others. That's why maybe I need a little more time to recover from these difficult conditions and be as fit and better than in the past ».

It will be recalled that, in his violent fall during testing for the first Grand Prix of the season in Portugal, Pol Espargaro fractured ten bones in his back, neck, ribs and jaw, leaving him 1,5cm shorter.