Pol Espargaró left Repsol Honda at the end of 2022 after two difficult seasons, moving to GasGas Tech3 where he was looking to return to good results in MotoGP. However, complicated injuries suffered early in the practice for the Portuguese GP that opened the season compromised his entire year… and he ended up without a spot in the grid for 2024.
In an interview with the Relevo website, the Spanish rider revealed that, despite all the adversities, he can extract something positive from what happened to him this year: ‘It’s complicated and tough. But you can see it in two ways: attack yourself and say how bad everything is, how dark, how unlucky, or hold on to the positive things that the situation presents to you – like what I was able to learn, that not everything always involves the sporting aspect. Also in the human aspect, you need to improve over the years’.
According to Espargaró, what happened to him this year may have been a kind of warning: ‘Maybe he realized that it was time to say, this was a warning or this is much more serious than we are sometimes capable of understanding because we don’t have these types of accidents every day and when it happens you say, “Damn, this is real”. And maybe it’s time to slow down, it’s not such a bad plan‘.
