No Grand Prix is on the horizon for the coming weeks, thus leaving fallow a MotoGP season whose numbers are confined. A blind spot which is also the prerogative of the transfer market for the next two years. For some, the shopping has been done. So with Yamaha, whose roadmap was written under the seals of Maverick Viñales and Fabio Quartararo, while at Honda, we did even stronger by retaining Marc Márquez for four years. For the rest, opportunities are open while everything is closed. How to decide? Already taking a date. So much so that Alberto Puig's latest outing on Pol Espargaró is anything but gratuitous...
Yamaha therefore has a clear vision of the future and Honda has its leader permanently installed within its walls. At the house of Suzuki, we would be going through the formalities with Kidneys et Mir while at Ducati, we will do with what we have, hoping that the spearhead Dovizioso don't give up... Besides that, there is room for maneuver. Thus, at HRC, we know thatálex Márquez has a contract of only one year while Crutchlow is also interested in retirement. In the short or medium term.
So nothing should be neglected. Especially with a Pol Espargaro project hero KTM but who suggested that the rest of his career would not necessarily take place within the Mattighofen factory. Given the potential and state of mind of the cadet of a Aleix officiating at Aprilia, this is a case that must be studied. And Alberto puig does it… He declares about the former Moto2 World Champion: “ Pol Espargaró is a guy who goes very fast on a motorcycle and has always loved it. It would go very quickly with a Honda »
« Of course he could be fast with a Honda ". This is clear, but the director of the Repsol Honda team immediately puts things into perspective: “ I talk about Espargaró as I could talk about the others ". Once the foundations are laid, Alberto puig makes a parenthesis on the KTM, at the risk of attracting some wrath from the Austrians… “ It's true that they changed their bike, their chassis. They said they wouldn't change it and they changed it. Now the bike, from what we saw in Qatar, works. »
Puig refers here to the tubular steel frame presented as the DNA of KTM, which had caused a time of debate between the manufacturer and Pol I will espargaro, before the brand puts an end to the subject. Today, and under the validation of Dani Pedrosa, test driver of the Austrians whose experience with Honda, as with Alberto Puig, this framework has evolved into a sort of hybrid concept… Puig would he like to blow on the embers? Anyway, it ends like this on Pol Espargaro : " he is always happy. This gives a more than sufficient standard for a Hond. " To be continued !
