Contract worry admission from at-risk MotoGP rider as silly season starts
“I see what the rest are doing with the bike. So, no excu▨ses"

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Augusto Fernandez is open about his contract worry as the rider mark✤et gets interesting.
The Tech3 GASGAS rider is into his second season in MotoGP.
But his🥃 stunning new teammate, Pedro Acosta, has set the bar🐓 incredibly high and created a difficult situation for Fernandez.
While Acosta has twice been on the p🅺odium, Fernandez has struggled this year 🏅so far.
He has finished 17th, 11th and 14th in the three grands prix before this weekend’s🦩 Spanish MotoGP.
“We n🔯eed to [resolve this] now,” Fernandez said abou🔜t his below-par form.
“We need to sign contracts, to keep on…
“I would ꦿlove to stay on the same bike next year becau💯se I believe in the project.
“I want to show ꦬthem - prove to them -🐟 that I am a winner, and that I can win with their bike.”
Fernandez’s contract expires at the enꦇd of this season.
KTM, meanwhile, have Brad Binder secured longer-term and are believed t✤o h🐻ave an option to keep Acosta.
Last year when Acosta demanded a promotio♔n after winning Moto2, it was originally thought that Fernandez would be sacrificed.
Ins🌺tead, in a huge show of faith, KTM rewarded Fernand꧃ez with a new contract for 2024 and demoted Pol Espargaro.
The 2022 Moto2 champion Fernandez has therefore seen ꦰfirst-ha꧅nd that KTM can be ruthless when making contract calls.
The key, he knows𒉰, is to sort out his o🀅n-track performance.
“I want to win. I⛎’m here to win,” Fe𒅌rnandez insisted.
“I’m world champion and I work to win.🐎 So I don’t like to be at the꧅ back of the grid.
“We expected a lot better. Because we finishꦯed the season not bad𒀰.
I was close to the top KTM quite a lot of times.
“So I expected a lot more for the start of the seaso🔯n with the new bike, with the experience.
“I am struggling to even get 🐼the speed. I don’t have the speed yet.
“In the past I have faced this kind of situation.
“My career has b🦂een li🌠ke this - one year very good, a couple of years bad.
“But I always come back.
“I don🥀’t feel 🦩good with the bike. But I see potential. I see that the bike is better.
“I see what the rest are doing wi𓆏th theඣ bike. So, no excuses.
“I ne𓆉ed to find my base wi✃th the bike, and get my speed back.
“It’s a relief, kind of. Because🐓 of course, I need to do it. But the bike can do these things.
“♕I am ope⛎n to change whatever. I want to be there. I want to win.”
The presence of Fernandez’s new tea📖mmate Acosta has complicated matters𒈔.
But Fernandez insists that being🍸 so 🐠dramatically outperformed could work in his favour.
“Luckily we have Pedro in the same box, going very fast since preseason,” Fern🌌andez said๊.
“So I am able to compare things, understand a little 🎃bit quicker what I am missing, what I need, or don’t need, or whe൲re I am already fast.
“Havi🌠ng fast teammates is bad for one thing, because it is a lot of fight. Buღt it’s good to recover when you are lost.
“You can recover quicker when you ha꧃ve these kinds of teammates.”
Fernandez is one of many riders heading into th🌜eir home race, the Spanish MotoGP at Jerez, this weekend as the European leg of the MotoGP season begins.

James was a s🎶ports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football🐷, to F1.