Contract worry admission from at-risk MotoGP rider as silly season starts
“I see what the rest are doing with the bꦛike. So, no excuses"

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Augusto Fernandez is open about his contract worry as the�🐓� rider market gets interesting.
The Tech3 GASGAS rider is into his second season in MotoGP.
But h♈is stunnin꧙g new teammate, Pedro Acosta, has set the bar incredibly high and created a difficult situation for Fernandez.
While Acosta has twice been on the podium, Fernandez has struggled 🌌this ye♛ar so far.
He ha🐼s finished 17th, 11thᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ and 14th in the three grands prix before this weekend’s Spanish MotoGP.
“We need to [resolve this] now,” Fernandez said about 🔯his below-par form.
“We need to sign contracts, to keep on…
“I would love to st𒆙ay on the same bike n𓃲ext year because I believe in the project.
“I want to show them - prove to them - that 𒆙I am a winner, and th🥂at I can win with their bike.”
Fernandez’s contract expires at the end of this se꧃ason.
KTM, 🉐meanwhile, have Brad Binder secured longer-term and are believed to have an option to keep Acosta.
Last year when Acosta 𝔉demanded a promotion after winning Moto2, it was originally thought that Fernandez would be sacrificed🍬.
Instead, in a huge show of faith, KTM rewarded Fernandez with a new contract for 2024 and demot♈ed Pol E🌌spargaro.
T꧙he 2022 Moto2 champion Fernandez has therefore seen first-hand that KTM can be ruthless when making contract calls.
The key, he k🥂nows, is 🏅to sort out his on-track performance.
“I want 🐻to win. I’m here to win,” Fernandez in💟sisted.
“I’m world champion and I work to win. So I don’t li💃ke to be at the back of the grid.
“We expected a lo🌳t better. Because wܫe finished the season not bad.
I was close to the top KTM quite a lot of times.
“So I expected a lot more for the start of the season with the ♓new bike, wi𒆙th the experience.
“I am struggling to even get the speed. I don’t have the speed ye🌠t.
“In the past I have faced this kind of situation.
“My career has b🐲een like this - one year very good, a couple♌ of years bad.
“But I always come back.
“I don’t feeꦬl good with the bike. But I see potential.ꦉ I see that the bike is better.
“I see what th༒e rest are doing with the bike. So, no excuses𝄹.
“I need to find my base with the bike, and get myꦆ speed back.
“I🍬t’s a relief, kind of. Because of course, I need to do it. But the bike can do these things.
“I am♍ open to change whatever. I want to be there. I want to win.”
The presence of ﷽Fernandez’s new teammate Acosta has complicated matters.
But Fernandez insists thatꦑ being so dramatically out🌟performed could work in his favour.
“Luckily we have Pedro in the same box, ▨going very fast sin꧃ce preseason,” Fernandez said.
“So I am able to compare things, understand a little bit quicker what I am missing, what 🎃I need, or don’t need, or where I am already fast.
“Having fast teammates is bad for one thing, because it is a lot of fight. But it’s good to꧙ recover when you are lost.
“Y🦂ou can recover quicker when you have these kinds of teammates.”
Fernandez is one of many ri🌊ders heading into their home race, the Spanish MotoGP at Jerez, this weekend as the European leg of the MotoGP season begins.

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to ♎football, to F1.