MotoGP: Pol Espargarò “Next year I'll race with the Tech3 but the goal is to race in the official Yamaha team”

• freddynofear said:

  3 August 2013 at 07: 11

  If this is the case, Cal was right to leave, giving an official bike to a rider who has to demonstrate that he is at the level of the best and not giving it to someone who has made numbers while also managing to get in front of the officials, is nonsense, and it is clear that there are interests that go beyond merit and performance. Cal felt offended by this choice (imagine if he had remained in Tech 3, Smith would almost certainly have been unseated and he would have found himself a rookie with the official bike...). Although the Ducati choice may not be the best for next year, it was Cal's only chance to get to an official bike, I am convinced that his desire to get there and his riding style will make the right contribution to the Ducati cause . Come on Cal, you have all my solidarity!

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  1. W_il_Sic said:

     3 August 2013 at 11: 47

     I believe Cal enjoys the solidarity of all of us….
     We always show solidarity with those who are certainly faced with an unfortunate choice (professionally in this case).

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• Ronnie said:

  3 August 2013 at 12: 33

  Bordering on the incredible, how can you give an official guarantee to Espargarò who will be a good rider but is certainly not a Marquez...

  I don't understand, maybe the factory Yamaha was destined for Crutchlow but he left? Even though Crutchlow's bike is already practically an official one, I doubt he's missing anything.
  However, if they really wanted to give Espargaro a real factory team and he didn't, I'm not saying he was right to go to Ducati, but Yamaha's behavior was certainly wrong.

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• Bryan said:

  3 August 2013 at 14: 53

  Who are we to criticize a manufacturer that chooses which driver to link its image to? Yamaha believes in Espargarò for the future, obviously because in the minor categories the only one capable of keeping up with Marqez was him, and with much worse materials. It's normal for a house not to like a driver. Maybe Yamaha didn't like Crutchlow because he didn't hold back at all with his criticism of the bike. it's normal that if you commit to something and a rider who isn't even fighting for the world championship continues with criticism of the bike, that rider won't interest you much. Espargarò has been close to Yamaha since last year, and Lin Jarvis likes him a lot. In my opinion if Crutchlow was less polemical, they would have sent Smith away. 2+2=4

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• fatman said:

  4 August 2013 at 10: 02

  ...maybe you haven't yet understood that Spain is in charge of this sport...and the money they move...question to everyone: why didn't they take brother Alex from CRT who has already shown he knows how to drive? Let's see if you aren't all turnips!!!

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• Ronnie said:

  5 August 2013 at 20: 12

  I agree with you about this, if we remove Rossi and Crutchlow from the "official" bikes, only Spanish riders remain on the official Hondas and Yamahas at the moment.

  They are also making a clean sweep of drivers from other nationalities and are just as good as the others.

  Stoner is gone, Rossi won't race for a thousand years, Crutchlow left for Ducati, Dovi did the same.

  It's becoming more and more a Spanish championship for Spangoli, I'm not saying they should penalize them, but it also doesn't seem right to me that we should focus everything on them and that everything is owed to them.

  They have certainly invested a lot of money to develop a myriad of drivers, but I believe that in the end they will pay the price when it will always be only Spaniards in all categories who win repeatedly, I think the international public will get fed up.

  If Smith and then maybe Bradl also lose their competitive saddle it will be a single-nation world championship, and there isn't that much longer to go...

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