Aragon MotoGP: Jake Dixon: I don’t know what championship I’ll be in next year

Jake Dixon prepares for what looks like being his final MotoGP appearance of the season, 2022 remains unclear.
Jake Dixon, British MotoGP race, 29 August 2021
Jake Dixon, British MotoGP race, 29 August 2021
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Possession may be nine-tenths of the law, but Jake Dixon says he 💙has no idea if he has a chance of keeping hold of the satellite Yamaha MotoGP seat for the 2022 season.

The Englishman gets his second outing on the ex-Franco Morbidelli bike at Aragon this weekend, but it is fellow Petronas SRT rider Darryn Binder who is still thought to be favourite to join Andrea Dovizio⛄so in the 'reborn' MotoGP team next season.

If Binder does become only the second rider to jump straight from Moto3 to MotoGP, after Jack Miller in 2015, the disbanding of the SRT Moto2 and Moto3 outfits means Dixon will need ✃to fit an alternative team for 2022.

"No, the team, we haven’t spoken about anything," Dixon said on Thursda🏅y at Aragon, when asked𝓰 about his chances of keeping the MotoGP seat.

"At this moment in time, I don’t know where my future is or wh🎀at I'm doing or what championship I'll be in," he added.

If Binder is the clear favourite, all Dixon can do is at least make th🧸e SRT rider decision more difficult, while putting himself in the shop window for both future MotoGP chances and the best possible 2022 seat in another class.

On paper, he couldn't ask for a better grand prix venue than Aragon to try and impress, hav꧋ing claimed his best Moto2 result of fourth place at the track one year ago.

"It's great to be back at a track I love a lot," he said. "I had my best result last year here on the Moto2 bike so I can't wait to ride the MotoGP bi💙ke. I'm looking forward to trying to shrink that gap from me to the front guys."

Dixon had got the gap down to +1.6s by warm-up at his home Silverstone round, only to suffer tyre disappointment in the race. Wheꦕre does he think the next gains can be found?

"I🐲t'll be a combination of everything, but I think for me last time in Silverstone I just needed to focus more on the mid-part of b♊raking," Dixon explained.

"If I can just decelerate the bike a little bit in the mid-phase I think my lap time will come a lot easier because I will be able to open the corner up a bit more rather than brakin🍨g too deep into the corner.

"And jusꦇt doing more laps will also na🐲turally give me more understanding of the tyres and everything."

Dovizioso is ꩲset to take over the 2019-spec M1 from next weekend's Aragಞon round, ahead of the full 2022 campaign.

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