New Repsol Honda rider Pol Espargaro received a special surprise when, upon his return from training in the mountains of Andorra, he 🐓found an RC213V wearing his #44 waiting for him at home.

"I'm about to cry!" Espargaro said as he unveiled the bike in his garden. "Wow. I would n🧸ever have guessed, this is crazy… I want to keep it here forev🍌er!"

"The number [44] lo💯oks great. I worked really hard to see this number here. It's amazing.

"🌄This bike, with its colours, has always been the ultimate rival. It was our target."

Espargaro, 29, arrives at R♛epsol Honda after spending three MotoGP seasons at Tech3 Yamaha and then four years with KTM, culminating in a best-yet fifth place in the world championship and five podiums.

Now comes his biggest chance, riding for the factory Honda team that has won 20 500cc/MotoGP titles with Freddie Spencer, Wayne Gardner, Eddie Lawson, Mick Doohan, Alex Criv💟ille, Valentino Rossi, Nicky Hayden, Casey Stoner and Marc Marquez - most of them wearing the same Repsol colours Espargaro will campaign this season.

With his former K♊TM contract officially expiring on December 31, Espargaro was also able to put on his new team clothing for the first time:

"I dreamed about this moment so many times. To wear these colours and have this bike by my sideꦛ. I will probably sleep wearing this today!

"Without a doubt, I will always remember thi𒅌s moment."

Crouching behind the screen of the RCV, the Spaniard reveals: "It's a bit narrowe💞r than I thought."

Espargaro, replacing Alex Marquez as team-mate to six-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez, is due to make his Repsol Honda track debut duri🉐ng the opening pre-season test of the year, at Sepang in Malaysia on February 19-21.

With Marc༺ Marquez sidelined by a fractured arm, 2020 saw Honda experience its first winless premier-class season since 1981.