At 180cm, Aleix Espargaro is one of the tallest riders in MotoGP. That in turn means he has to work harder than most to find a compromise between minimum bo🎐dy weight and having enough muscle to manoeuvre the bike over a race distance.

"It’s very important," said the Aprilia ri♏der, who gave the RS-GP it's𓆉 first podium at Silverstone last year. "I saw in the past with my team-mates, even if we had 300hp, at the end it’s a machine that has to move weight.

"If you have 🍰enough power to handle the bike at 60kg then why do you have to weigh 70🌼? But to find this compromise is not easy.

"For riders under 175cm🌠 it’s easy. They can g✱o to the gym and have more strength. But for riders more than 180 it’s very difficult to find this balance.

"I’m 65kg right now. But I can’t do any weights in the gym because if I do it’s very easy to go to 68-69kg, then you start to lose acceleration anᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚd performance."

The Spaniard added that he viꦗews the extreme weight-watching as his contribution to the endless quest for more horsepower.

"To have the strength and still be that lean is not easy, but this is our job," he said🐈. "When I push the engi꧟neers to have more horsepower, I know it’s also not easy for them. I try my best, they try their best."