Pol Espargaro endurs difficult day for Honda at Doha MotoGP Grand Prix, and alludes to ‘over pushing’ during FP2 when trying to extract the most performance from RC213V.
17th in KTM's debut 2017 MotoGP season, Pol Espargaro brought the curtain down on his RC16 career with fifth place in the world championship at Portimao on Sunday.
Aleix Espargaro has spoken out in support of Aprilia MotoGP team-mate Andrea Iannone, following this week's shock announcement that his 18-month doping ban has been increased to 4-years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Pol Espargaro took his fourth podium of the 2020 MotoGP season and finished just 1.2s from victory in Valencia. Starting from a wet pole position, the KTM star had vowed to takes risks in pursuit of victory, but Sunday's critical moment came before the 27 laps had even begun.
Pol Esaprgaro hit the top of the timesheets at just the right moment as he took advantage of a drying track, gaining speed and grip to lead off the MotoGP European Grand Prix from pole position.
Aragon has been the scene of Aleix Espargaro best results of the season (6th, 6th, 7th) since joining Aprilia in 2017, but this year's double-header brought saw that run come to a grinding halt. After a frustrating 13th p
The combination of the best Aprilia Aleix Espargaro's ever ridden and an Aragon track where he's twice matched the RS-GP's best MotoGP result of sixth place should have been a recipe for success.
Having dropped outside the world championship top ten following a third DNF of the season in Catalunya, Pol Espargaro approaches the final six MotoGP races of his KTM career with a simple target; 'try to win as many as possible'.
Aleix Espargaro left Italy with just three points to show for Aprilia's pair of home races, a 13th in the first GP being followed by an opening lap accident in race two.
Starting just 20th on the initial grid, Aprilia's Aleix Espargaro gained places during both races starts on his way to twelfth place in Sunday's Styrian MotoGP.
"I was gutted for Mir because he was riding really strong. I tried to follow him for nine laps, but that was all I had. I was done. Unless he had tyre problems towards the end, he had that thing sorted."
MotoGP rookie Brad Binder said he 'cannot think of anything more scary as a rider' than the kind of high-speed brake failure experienced by Maverick Vinales in Sunday's Styrian Grand Prix,
Pol Espargaro was 'shocked' by the aftermath of last Sunday's Austrian MotoGP incident with KTM colleague Miguel Oliveira. The Spaniard said they both initially agreed it was a racing incident and apologised to each other.
MotoGP stars Danilo Petrucci and Aleix Espargaro were involved in an angry confrontation during Qualifying 1 for the Austrian Grand Prix, which then continued on Twitter.
Pol Espargaro channelled the anger carried over from last weekend's Brno MotoGP to claim first place during Friday practice for KTM's home round at the Red Bull Ring.
Johann Zarco may have still celebrated his first MotoGP podium for Ducati, and the first ever for the Avintia team, but Ducati Sporting director Paolo Ciabatti believes the Frenchman's long lap penalty was 'totally wrong'.
After the high of matching KTM's best dry MotoGP finish of sixth and being just one-second from the podium in the season opener, Pol Espargaro's chances of repeating the feat were dealt a severe blow when he fell during qualifying for the second Jerez event.
Aleix Espargaro's high hopes for the new Aprilia RS-GP were sorely dashed during the Spanish MotoGP season-opener, but he now gets a 'second chance' to fight for a 'top 6-top 8' on the same Jerez circuit this weekend.
'Pol is going there and, deep inside himself, he is sure he can challenge Marc'. Those were the words of Herve Poncharal on Pol Espargaro's expected move to Repsol Honda next season, to take on current six-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez.