What would Pol Espargaro bring to Tech3 KTM? Herve Poncharal explains… Full story 👉 MotoGP BritishGP
Click to subscribeSubscribe to our YouTube channel to get the latest reviews, interviews and more, Espargaro was then world champion in 2013 before joining MotoGP with Tech3 and Yamaha.
Meanwhile, Tech3 ended its long Yamaha association to become KTM’s satellite team in 2019, celebrating its long-awaited first MotoGP wins withBut there have been no podiums since and this year’s all-rookie line-up of Remy Gardner and Raul Fernandez are currently last in the riders’ championship. “And when you're a rider, sometimes you don't have the best package. Sometimes you're not in a position where you can win. So you always want to improve and reach the position of having a winning package.“If the rider is already thinking ‘my package cannot win today’, they will maybe ride at 90 or 95%. It’s not enough.
“The 2021 and 2022 seasons [at Honda] haven't been easy for him…. It looks like nothing is completely clear about the future. So we will see. But I have great memories of this guy as our rider. “But he was young and a lot of riders would have said, ‘no, it’s too early, I need results now, maybe at the end of my career I’ll try something like that’.