Pol Espargaro has admitted relief at n🌠otꦆ racing full-time this year due to the physical toll of injuries.

Espargaro’s 10 seaso🍸ns as a MotoGP rider were ended by KTM’s decision to replace him with Pedro Acostꦕa in their Tech3 GASGAS project this season.

His 2023 was blighted by﷽ an awful crash in Portimao on the first weekend which resulted in jaw, spine and lung injuries.

He will be a test a💙nd reseไrve rider for KTM in 2024.

“Become a MotoGP rider agꦜain? Phew, well I don't know,” he tol🙈d .

“Honestly, in t𓂃he tests I looked good an⭕d I feel fast.

“And, furthermore, I am recovering my optimal physical condition, which is what I lost after the injury🅠.

“In any case, God will say.”

But the injuries suffered a year ago hav💙e changed Espargaro’s mind💧-set slightly.

“When you 😼are young you forget🌜 it quickly,” he said.

“But as♉ you get older it is a backpack that gets heavier and heavier.

“Whe😼n you get up you notice pain that you didn't ཧhave, and that is due to falls you have had.

“I have to con꧟fess that in many moments I do feel relieved to no long💯er race full time.

“To give an example, I spoke with my brotꦦher who fell at turn 5 in Qatar doing the fastest lap.

“He was going very well and he fell and he 🐻said to me: 'I hit a terrible blow, my hand🐎 hurts a lot, I think I have suffered a fracture and I have to get up in weeks to see how I do...'

“Well, I don't miss that.

“Maybe what everyone sees on television is the races, the atmosphere,🔯 tꦏhe public, I'm going to miss that a lot.

“B🐻ut the injuries, the stress, the traumas and the confrontations with rivals, no, one ca⛦nnot miss it.

“In short, right now I'm fine the way I am.”

Espargaro, as well as his new role as a test and reserve rider, will also work as a TV presenter for DAZN who broadcast M♏otoGP in Spain.

It is a role which Dani Pedrosa and Jorge Lorenzo alre🅰ady hold.

“It's goin♊g🍬 to be a little different from Dani's because I'm going to be at the races.

“My role as a commentator at the races is to bring the technical field a little closer to people's homes because we're seeing lately how motorcycles look more and more like F1 with more aerodynamics and more tech♍nical gadgets on the bike.

“That is often very difficult to understand. “People may𒅌 not know why a rider in the middle of the r🍒ace starts to slow down and slows down and is overtaken by another competitor.

“Or how factories work and why a factory works better on one circuit and not on another, and perhaps all that is technical can be brought a little closer to the viewer from th🌳e circuit.

“I think it is a very interesting job.”