This will be a particularly intense weekend for Pol Espargaró, with the rider stepping down from his full-time role as the main rider in the category to make way for Pedro Acosta at GASGAS Tech3 in 2024. The Spaniard believes it will be a particularly emotional round, but it will be important not to let himself be carried away by the feelings.
Looking ahead to the Valencian Community GP, #44 started by saying: ‘I feel some butterflies in my stomach […]. It’s the last GP of the year and maybe my last GP as a full-time MotoGP rider, it’s something special,’ before talking about some of the emotions he admits to letting show.
– Some crying, maybe. I’m not the type who normally controls his emotions in a cold way, I let it flow, but if that happens with my team and my boys it’s something natural. It’s 15 years of racing, maybe more than that, it’s crazy, it’s a huge number of races and many experiences that I lived, especially in Valencia as the last race of the year. It’s many years.
However, Espargaró’s intention is not to let himself be carried away by what he feels, but rather to remain completely professional until the last second: ‘I don’t want my emotions to control my weekend, I have to be as mechanical as possible, professional, and try to do everything as it should be done and I think I can be fine here. I am determined to have fun this weekend’.
