After talking about his desire to justify Aprilia’s bet on him, especially after a 2023 marked by many injuries – mostly caused by other riders – Miguel Oliveira believes that it is too early to talk about a possible renewal of his contract, and went further, even calling for greater intervention and regulation in this aspect of MotoGP.
The portuguese rider even began by drawing parallels between the category and two other very different ones: ‘It’s not like Nascar or football where, that have two transfer windows. We have two months where we can have contracts. If by june no one is happy you can change, it’s like a mid-season’.
Oliveira then looked at the current state of the competition, from the contractual point of view of some riders, then called for the responsible entities to take action on the rider market and timings for action, even talking about… ‘chaos’:
– Right now you seen contracts getting broken before they finish, riders with valid contracts being at home, so finally there is a bit of chaos there, so it should be regulated, but it’s not up to me to decide that, to play with the rules that we have and deal with the situation we have the best way we can.