Pol Espargaró will leave the main rider position at the end of this season to “make way” for Pedro Acosta at GASGAS Factory Racing Tech3 and, at the time of confirmation, there was some controversy with the rider saying this was not a decision made ‘unilaterally’. Analyzing the situation, the youngest of the Espargaró brothers considered that there were some mistakes in the management of the whole situation.
In conversation with DAZN, #44, who in 2024 will become a test rider for the manufacturer, began by saying that he does not like to talk about the subject, from a negative point of view, about the manufacturer with whom he has a contract: ‘I feel bad because I don’t like to criticize the factory I work for, the one that pays me and takes care of me’.
Still, Espargaró sees some mistakes in the way the Acosta/MotoGP dossier was handled: ‘It was a management mistake on the part of KTM, we have talked about this many times and they have many contractual and management failures with the riders, and this was one of them. You can’t have a rider who has options to move up to MotoGP, which was obvious that Pedro would have that path, and have other signed riders or even renew one knowing that this situation will arise’.
The confirmation of Acosta’s promotion to MotoGP came in early July even though the Austrian manufacturer took almost two months to resolve the imbroglio it created, in placing the Spanish rider in the category.
