Contract worry admission from at-risk MotoGP rider as silly season starts

“♚I see what the rest are doing♏ with the bike. So, no excuses"

Augusto Fernandez, MotoGP, Portuguese MotoGP, 22 March
Augusto Fernandez, MotoGP, Portuguese MotoGP, 22 March

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Augusto Fernandez is open about his contra𓆏ct worry as the rider market gets interesܫting.

The Tech3 GASGAS rider is into his second season in MotoGP.

ꦆBut his stunning new teammate, Pedro A🎃costa, has set the bar incredibly high and created a difficult situation for Fernandez.

Whil🅘e Acosta has twice been on the podium, Fernandez has struggled this year so far.

He has finished 17th, 11th and 14th in the three grands prix before this weekend’s Spanish Mot🃏oGP.

🅘“We need to [resolve this] now,” Fernandez said about his below-p🍰ar form.

“We need to sign contracts, to keep on…

“I would love to stay on the same bike next year bec𒆙ause I believe in the projec💟t.

“I want to show them - prove to th🐽em - that I am a winner, and that I𝔍 can win with their bike.”

Fernandez’s contract expires at the end of this 🅠season.

KTM, meanwhile, have Brad Binder secured longer-term 💝and are believed to have an option to keep Acosta.

Last year when Acosta demanded a promotion afterꦓ winning Moto2, it was originally thought that Fernandez𝕴 would be sacrificed.

Instead, in a huge show of faith, KTM rewarded Fernandez with a n💎ew contract for 2024 and demoted Pol Espargaro.

The 2022 Moto2 champion Fernandez has therefore seen first-hand that KTM can be ruthless wheꦗn making contract calls.

The key, he knows, is to sort out his on-trac♛k performance.

“ౠI want to win.𒀰 I’m here to win,” Fernandez insisted.

“I’m world champion and I work to win. So I don’t like to be at the bac🍸k of the grid.

“We expected a lot better. 🃏Because we 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 ne🔯w bike, with the experience.

“I am struggling to eve🧜n get the s🎀peed. I don’t have the speed yet.

“In the past I have faced this kind of situation.

“My career has ꦉbeen like this - one year very good, a couple of years bad.

“But I always come back.

“I don’t feel good with 𓃲the bike. But I see potꦕential. I see that the bike is better.

“I see what the rest are doing withꦰ the bike. So, n🌠o excuses.

“I need to find my base with t🔯he bike, and get my speed🧸 back.

“It’s a relief, kind of. Because of 🌊course,🍬 I need to do it. But the bike can do these things.

“I am open꧒ to change whatever. I want to be there. I 🦹want to win.”

Th𓄧e presence of Fernandez’s new teammate Acosta has complicated matters.

But Fernandez insists that being so dramatic﷽ally outp꧒erformed could work in his favour.

“Luckily we♔ have Pedro in the same box, going very fast 𒐪since 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 fightཧ. But i🎃t’s good to recover when you are lost.

“You can recover qu✤icker when you have these kinds of teammates.”

Fernꦰandez is one of many riders heading into their home race, the Spanish MotoGP at Jerez, this weekend as the European leg of the MotoGP season begins.

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