Pol Espargaró will leave the main rider position at the end of this season to “make way” for Pedro Acosta in the GASGAS Factory Racing Tech3 team, and when the confirmation was made, 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, the #44, who will become a test rider for the manufacturer in 2024, initially mentioned that he does not like to speak about the topic, 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 errors in the way the Acosta/MotoGP dossier was managed: ‘It was a management mistake on KTM’s part, 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 riders signed or even with one plus one and renew it knowing that this situation will arise’.
The confirmation of Acosta’s promotion to MotoGP came in early July, although the Austrian manufacturer took almost two months to resolve the imbroglio it created in placing the Spaniard in the category.
