Pol Espargaro: I’ll prove I deserve my two-year MotoGP deal, or move aside

With 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Brad Binder and168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Jack Miller fixed at the factory Red Bull team for another season, Acosta is tipped to take over from either Espargaro or rookie team-mate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Augusto Fernandez at the GASGAS Tech3 squad.
On paper, Fernandez would need to make way since Espargaro has a two-year KTM contract, runnin🤡g until the end of 2024, while the reigning Moto2 champion is on a single-year deal.
But Espargaro has missed the entire first half of the season due to ten fractures at the Portimꦫao opener and his main goal now is simply ܫto come back and “prove that I still have some speed.”
And “if I don’t do 🐷enough results to stay here” then the Spaniard says he would consider a “m🌱ove on the side and let a younger guy come in my place.”
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“I have a two-year contract,” Espargaro beg🦋an. “I’ve been injured and not even thinking about this [but] my contract is fixed until two years.
“Also KTM and GASGAS are not like a team at this moment, they are a family. I talk with Pit [Beirer], with Hubert [Trꦛunkenpolz] like theyꦰ are my friends, honestly.
“We chat super open, like about how the riders are doing. They were telling me what they think about new riders coming. I talked with them quite honestly and nꩵice.
“So at the moment I’m just focussed on recovering ൲and coming back, but you know, my contract is still one y♌ear and a half in advance [to go].
“I just want to come back, do the resul📖ts, and show them I neeꦿd to stay.
“If I don’t do better results or enough results to deserve to be 🌳here, I would be glad to move on the side and let a younger guy come in my place.
“But at the moment, ꦗI will prove that I still have 𒀰some speed.”
However, there is now only one round (Silverstone)&nbs🐭p;before KTM's home Austria🌌n GP, when the factory is expected to announce its 2024 rider line-up.
There have already been whispers KTM might offer Espargaro 🏅a 2024 test and wild-card deal should h♔e need more time to recover from his injuries.
It’s also not out of the question that Fernandez - 14th in the world champi♛onship, with a best finish💞 of fourth - could be offered the MotoGP test and wild-card deal.
Other rumours suggest the 25-year-old might even be placed at a rival satellite team, after KTM's enquiries over the possibility of the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Ajo team running Acosta in 🍌MotoGP came to nothing.
Meanwhile, Espargaro will make his return to the RC16 during next weekend’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Goodwood Festival of Speed.
Then, if he passes the necessary medical checks, an official MotoGP comeback will take 🐻plac🍌e at Silverstone in early August.

Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and🐻 has seeཧn Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.