In recent years, there have not been many rookies entering MotoGP – just one in both 2022 and 2023. However, there are several riders in Moto2 who aspire to make the jump and have the credentials to do so, making life harder for some of the current top-category riders due to the pressure to prove they deserve their spot. Consequently, having a long career like Aleix Espargaró, who will retire at the end of the season, becomes more challenging.
Marc Márquez believes it is an equally difficult scenario for the teams, at a time when many riders show they deserve to be in MotoGP:
– For me I think it’s super tricky for the teams, because it looks like these last years… in the end the rider makes the difference, but it depends a lot on the machine and looks like that the level is super equal. If you check the lap times, you see that most of the riders deserve a MotoGP.
The Spanish rider from Gresini made these statements in a press conference, where he also said: ‘But in the end they are also coming from Moto2 pushing a lot, so it’s difficult to have a long career; it’s the famous sentence that «it’s not difficult to arrive, it’s difficult to keep the level». But that’s life. This time was Aleix, he chose it – because sometimes you cannot choose, you just don’t have another option. So this is something that is also important for his retirement, that he chose he would be better at home’.