Solution offered to KTM despite a bid for a fifth bike being bluntly rejected
Factory duo 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jack Miller and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Brad Binder, Tech3 GASGAS pair 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pol Espargaro and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Augusto Fernandez, and Moto2 graduate P🧸e🍃dro Acosta are all contracted for a premier class seat in the 2024 MotoGP rider line-up.
However, Dorওna CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta has again refused KTM’s wish to have a fifth bike next season - but ꩲhe has offered them hope with a new idea.
"Let's see if it'💜s clear,” Ezpeleta was quoted by about KTM expanding their presence on the grid.
“There has never been a fifth bike fo✱r KTM and there isn't on☂e. Okay?
“I don't know ⛦where you get that from because I've told everyone who has asked me: There are no more bikes because the existing system is working very well.
“Independent teams have✅ rights and value that they would not have if you gave everyoꦏne who arrived a motorcycle.
Ezpeleta said about how KTM can solve the issue of having an extra rider: "That's not a problem. It's as if Barc🌺elona had 12 players and said: 'Now what do we do?'
“Well, one stays on the bench🌄. Well, it's the same.
“They have four positions and five riders.
“I think that having, in a wor🉐ld 💯championship as long as we have now, having five riders prepared to be able to get on any of those four bikes, is a good solution.
“That, together with the fact that there are some wild cards, as it will help all the riders to be busy for most꧅ of the time.
“We🍒 are going to pr💞opose that there be more wild cards.
“These are not conꦜcession🐭s, they are wild cards for everyone.”
The quantity of injuries this sea꧟son in MotoGP, and the addition of sprint races into the format, has been plenty of reserve riders cဣompeting in races.
This weekend at the Catalunya MotoGP for exam൩ple, Iker Lecuona will fill in for Alex Rins again.
I🎉t will be Lec𒊎uona’s fifth MotoGP outing of the season.
So, KTM could use one of their five contracted riders in a ‘reserve’ role, ready to step in for either their factory or ⛦satellite teams in the case of an injury.
And the add🃏ition of extra wildcards means that the reserve rider could rack up the equivalent of half-a-season or m🧸ore, depending on injuries.
Now, KTM muꦐst work out which of their five riꦬders - Miller, Binder, Espargaro, Fernandez or Acosta - to use in that role.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to footbal🌳l, to F1.
