There are those who♚ believe J🤡ohann Zarco should have been given the vacant Repsol Honda MotoGP seat for 2020, rather than Alex Marquez.

But Aleix Espargaro certainly isn’t one of them.

It might not be officially confirmed, but it's now all-but-certain that Alex will move up from Moto2 to ride a✱longside brother and reigning champion Marc ne༺xt season.

They may be the first brothers as MotoGP team-mates, but the sport already has two siblings competing in the premier-class in the form of Aleix, at Aprilia, and younger brother Pol, at KTM, where he was&n꧋bsp;team-mate to Zarco at the start of this year.

"I think🥃 the situation with the Marquez brothers is completely different. One is the best rider in history with 𝓰many titles, Honda is his home and his brother is young, has never been in MotoGP. Pol and me we are a similar level, in similar places, but with different manufacturers in MotoGP," Aleix said.

"If Honda decide to take [Alex] Marquez, I think it's the best decision. I would do the same if I was Honda, because Alexis the Moto2 champion, also Marc will 🌼be happy.

"Many people say that Zarco deserves that bike, for me it's not true. For me if Zarc♌o deserves that bike, Pol and me deser🐓ve ten times more!

"So I think if finally the Moto2 world champion goes there, more than welcome and I think he de⛄serves it."

One of the factors rumoured to have swayed Honda's decision in favour of 🤪Alex is the negative team atmosphere referenced by KTM when they dropped Zarco after Misano, having already agreed to his request to cancel the second year of a factory c🤪ontract.

"The attitude he showed this year, for me is not a professional attitude," said Aleix, highlighting the tough ღtimes he has been through at Aprilia: "The people around me at Aprilia know how many times I cried last year, how many times I cried this year. But this is our job, this is our life.

"A lot of people behind us, with a lot of families, are working very hard. A lot of people are putting a lot of money into these 🗹projects. So to stop and say, 'this bike is shit, I go home' - for me, he doesn't deserve to go to the best bike and best team in the world.

"It’s just my opinion."

Zarco 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:believes he acted in a 'gent♛lemanly' way by informing KTM of his decision as early as possible, allowing the factory plenty of time to🍌 prepare alternative 2020 plans, whereas Lorenzo's retirement came on the eve of the season finale.

With the Repsol Honda door closing, Zarco - lucky to escape serious leg injurie🅰s in his final LCR appearance in place of Takaaki Nakagami - is now tipped to join Marc VDS as Alex's replacement, where the Frenchman would aim to win a third Moto2 title.

An Avintia Ducati MotoGP race seat appears possible, but Zarco made clear he wasn't prepared to risk a repeat of his KTM unhappiness by joining an unproven t🦩eam or bike, and would rather return to Moto2.