MotoGP: Pol Espargaró spoke to Marc Marquez as a future teammate…

They will be teammates in 2021, but already, they are talking with each other, as if to prepare the ground. Pol Espargaró will leave KTM at the end of the year to join the Repsol Honda team which only lives through its leader Marc Marquez. A policy that is paying dearly at the moment, since the said leader is recovering from a broken humerus and operated on twice. Suddenly, the same Hondas are at the back of the peloton. Enough to ask questions for anyone who sees an RC16 now able to win. In Misano, he exchanged messages with the eight-time World Champion…

When he signed with the Repsol Honda team during confinement, Pol Espargaro was quite cheerful. He left a factory KTM who did not yet give the impression of being able to play at the forefront to join a brand in the firmament since 2013 in MotoGP, thanks to Marc Marquez.

Five Grands Prix later, the appearance has radically changed. However, there is no time for regret. The act is complete, to the point that the two future teammates are already communicating assiduously: “ I talk to Marc » recognizes the youngest I will espargaro. " I sent him a message. I saw him looking at the bikes and asked him how he was. We talked a little and, obviously, he wants to come back, like any injured pilot at home. In addition, he is a driver who drives at the front and who really likes racing, so he misses it a lot “, declared the tenth in the general classification.

« It's a very strange season, because of all the COVID, because of the period we started, because of Marc's injury... I guess with Marc here, on the track, more than one race would have been his. It's a matter of time before he recovers and maybe we end up like in the last races." developed Pol Espargaro.

“Marc pushed too hard, but he also did what the doctors said”

A feeling which amounts to asking the question of the astonishing unfolding of this season which is no less so: “ I wish every year was like this. Hopefully Marc would slow down his pace a bit to match all the results. There are a lot of levels and although we all said that the season was very short and that we would have to be very careful, it was completely the opposite, because there were a lot of crashes, a lot of mistakes, engine failures… It's a very crazy season, but that makes the championship a lot of fun ».

Regarding Marc’s absence, he said: “ it shows a lot. He is a dominant driver who is always in front. When you get a good result, you wonder what you would have done with Marc. Not having the best driver among us means you don't know the benchmark for the fastest lap and where you really come from. It's a short championship in which mistakes are costly. Marc made a mistake for which he is paying dearly and the rest of us are taking advantage of this situation a little. ».

And regarding his reappearance in Jerez just four days after having undergone surgery for the fracture of the humerus in his right arm he details: “ we have our mechanics and our engineers, in whom we trust one hundred percent. And apart from that, if we get injured, we have our other mechanics, who are the doctors who operate on us and who are part of our life and our routine. At the time, Marc listened to the doctors, who told him nothing would happen, and it happened. We all make mistakes. Marc pushed the machine too hard, sure, but he also did what the doctors recommended and it didn't work ».

Clearly, the Doctor's next prognosis Mir will be evaluated to the millimeter. His last intervention was made on Cal Crutchlow, who had to forfeit this Saturday for the rest of the meeting at Misano.