Aleix Espargaro on Marc Marquez: “If Honda don’t give him a good bike…” | “I have weapons”
Espargaro, after mounting somewhat of a MotoGP title threat in the early stages of last season, eventℱually fell away but the preseason test in Sepang went positively for Aprilia who hope to re♛bound.
Marquez, meanwhile, remains limited by his Repsol Honda bike’s issues ahead of a season where he could match 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Valentino Rossi’s seven premier class championships.
“For me, Marc is the mo📖st talented rider I’ve raced with,” Espargaro told . “Now, however, there is a great levelling between the bikes and alsoও the level of riders is very high.
“Before there were four oꦜr five riders in front of everyone. Even getting into the top 10 ꦇhas become difficult.
“If Honda do not give him a good bike, it will be difficult for Marquez t⛄o fight. Aprilia and Ducati are doing an incredible job. There is a theme that the Italian brands are educated to a high level, what is happening with the Japanese brands💜 is strange."
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Francesco Bagnaia’s title reign will inevitably be challenged by Yamaha’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fabio Quartararo, and probably also his own factory Ducati teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Enea Bastianini.
Pramac’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jorge Martin will fancy his chances and KTM hope their new duo of 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Miller and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Brad Binder can fight at the front regularly.
“There are many strong Ducatis and practically no rookies,” said Espargaro. “So there are a doz🉐en riders who can🐼 win the championship.
“Will it reward regularity a lot because there are more races or can you ri♏sk more because there are more chances to recover points? It’s not an easy question.
“T💮h𒆙e goal is the title. But I have no pressure and I am relaxed.
“I kn𒈔ow I have the weapons and the experience that I didn’t have at the beginning of last year.
“I have matured as a rider so I feel calm.
“In ༒the past t꧙wo years, not only I have learned a lot, but the whole of Aprilia has.”
Aprilia race manager Paolo Bonora emerged 🔯from Sepang warning that their RS-GP will profit from a new engine at the Portimao test, turning into 🌌the machine most likely to threaten the Desmosedici.
“We are trying to prepare as best we can, but we will only find out in Portimao what will happen,” Espargaro, who finished fourth in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:MotoGP standings in 2022, said.
“The positiꦦve thing is that nܫobody liked FP3! But now Saturday will be stressful.
“When the riders sai𝓀d we weren’t convinced by Sprint races it isn’t because we don’t like racing. But 42 starts in MotoGP is dangerous.
“It would have been better to try f෴ive Spr𝄹int races - but I don’t organise the championship.”
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