I was supposed to be on a semi-factory LE Aprilia, earn a wage for the first time, get this and get that and we’ve ended up with FA. The team received 400,000 euros out of the supposed 2million euros that was supposed to come. I feel that this amount of money would have been easily enough to run myself and the 125cc rider Andrea Iannone (which were the sponsors contracted riders) on standard kit bikes (not the LE semi-official bikes), at least, for the season, but obviously the money has been spent elsewhere and now the team are looking for more money off their riders which unfortunately we don't have.
I am obviously feeling that we were "led up the garden path" but things happen and all I can do is learn from it and make sure it doesn't happen again.
Mugello was a boring weekend! The racing was awesome to watch but it would have been nice to be out there. We had made big progress with what we had in Le Mans and just got unlucky there on Saturday and Sunday but I was confident that that would have been the first race of the year that I could have been satisfied with the result. The one thing I didn’t miss about not racing was the pre-race nerves! Over the weekend we had a meeting with Dorna and they said they definitely wanted to keep me in the paddock and had some ideas, and to be patient. We listened to them and have been staying patient for a while and are waiting to see if anything happens.
After Mugello I went home and was there every day before we left for Barcelona the following Wednesday. I knew that I wouldn’t be riding in Barcelona but it’s pretty important for me to keep my face in the paddock. Again the weekend was pretty boring. I did a bit of commentary on the Dorna world feed which goes out on the internet, to Australia and to some places in Asia.
