Always, always, usually Aleix Espargaró. She is 33 years old, she has run 301 grand prizes, he has only won one, the one from Argentina, where it will take place next week, in Termas de Río Hondo, was the great entertainer, not to say a revelation in someone who has been in the motorcycling world championship for two decades, but if the eldest of the Espargarós has something, a motorcycle driver, racing, who could dedicate himself to any sport at a very high level, for example, cycling, is that he does not mince words. And when he speaks always speak from the heart, but adding a lot of head. And, even though many do not believe it, although some may think that he does it to criticize his sport, it is not true! Aleix Espargaró loves motorcycling, he loves the World Cup and his observations are only to improve his organization, the show, racing, everything.
A legal hole
And this is how he behaved yesterday when, at the end of his appearance in one of the three press conferences that took place on the beautiful Portimao track (Portugal), he said that he had not liked at all how the organization of the World Cup resolved the appearance, the implantation, of the short races, to the ‘sprint’, of Saturdays and the fact that they have not even been able to claim, before their teams, that they should charge them separately. And it is that when all, all, the pilots signed their renewal contracts, almost all for the next two years, the idea of running on Saturday was not on the table.
“There is a legal gap there that we do not like at all, but I have already told my manager to stop fighting, that he will not achieve anything. We won’t charge them, period, so let’s look for the good part of the idea, the positive, and let our fans enjoy with more spectacle”, commented Aleix Espargaró, who also disagrees (“but that’s been eight years, Dovizioso and I , telling the organizers and nothing has changed”), with all the training sessions over the weekend being timed and counting to classify you for the ‘quali’ on Saturday “because you always go with the hook and you don’t have time to put the bike to the point as it touches ”. “They, the organizers, argue that The fact that all the practices are timed adds excitement and I’m not saying no, but it takes time to prepare our bikes better”, insists the one from Granollers, a resident for many years in Andorra, where they have their businesses.
“Even my grandmother sees F-1 and that her product is worse than ours”
When an Italian journalist asks your opinion about the fact that MotoGP evolves or copies many of the experiences of the F1 and, therefore, copy the single-seater competition, Aleix, always sincere, says: “If imitating F-1 means getting to where F-1 is, ‘welcome’, friend. That is to say, everything that comes close to that show, to F1, which even my grandmother sees, is good. And that his product is, I think, worse than ours ”. The races from Saturday to the ‘sprint’ are counted in F-1, MotoGP will carry them out every weekend, that is, on the 21 Saturdays of the 21 grand prix. “I have my personal opinion about it,” said Aleix, “but I’m not going to say it and the organizers don’t care so, I repeat, let’s look for the positive of the idea and make our fans happy.”
