Marko Hanželic
Close cooperation between drivers of the same team in MotoGP is the exception rather than the rule, of which he is also aware Espargaro Pol, who was with the teams Tech 3 in KTM accustomed to cooperation. At Honda, this will not happen, the twenty-nine-year-old from Catalonia.
“With the Repsol Honda team, things are quite different. We have a winning motorcycle, so it is not necessary for the racers to work together to develop. The package that Honda has is basically impressive, ” he says Asparagus and adds: "Of course, that doesn't mean the relationship between me and Marco in the pits will be cold or hostile, even if we don't help each other."
She is at the beginning of her career Asparagus garage long shared with Bradley Smith, with whom he also performed in pairs at 8 hours Suzuke. In 2019, they each went their separate ways, taking Smith’s place Johann zarco, and last season his teammate was young Brad Binder.
"I was in a completely different situation at the time," he compares his first years with the present Asparagus: “In my first season at MotoGP at Yamaha, I wanted to work a lot with a teammate, which is an even more pronounced practice in a semi-factory team. It was similar with KTM which was also a newcomer to MotoGP. We all worked together to give one of us a more resounding result. ”
Espargaro Pol has been with MotoGP since 2014. In the team Tech 3 he failed to get on the podium, but he finished third five times last season and ended up fifth in the championship.
