Pol Espargaró left Repsol Honda at the end of 2022 after two complicated seasons, moving to GasGas Tech3 where he was looking to return to good results in MotoGP. However, complicated injuries suffered right in the practice session of the Portuguese GP that opened the season compromised his entire year… and ended up without a spot in the grid for 2024.
In an interview with the Relevo website, the Spanish rider confided that, despite all the adversities, he can extract something good from what happened to him this year: ‘It’s complicated and tough. But it can be seen in two ways: attacking yourself and saying how bad everything is, how dark, how unlucky, or holding on to the positive things that the scenario presents to you – like what I was able to learn, that not everything always involves the sporting part. Also, in the human aspect, it is necessary to improve over the years’.
In Espargaró’s understanding, what happened to him this year may even have been a kind of warning: ‘Maybe I realized that it was time to say, this was a warning or this is much more serious than sometimes we are able to understand because we don’t have this type 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’.
