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First-up, official pre-season exams in Malaysia and Qatar but then there is tonnes of anticipation for the unusual world championship campaign, that can commence with the Colossal Prix of Qatar on the Lusail Global Circuit on March 9-10. The flee under the lights could be the foremost of 22 rounds and 44 outings (2024 could be the 2nd term of the Saturday Dawdle format) throughout the globe and into the month of November.
Crimson Bull GASGAS Tech3 are strapped and looking ahead to the red lights to scramble out as a result of their intriguing rider roster. 2022 Moto2™ World Champion and 2023 MotoGP Rookie of the 300 and sixty five days Augusto Fernandez will tackle his sophomore strive on the premier class with the GASGAS RC16 and could maybe be aiming to higher a ‘PB’ creep outcomes of 4th from 2023 to boot to enter the pinnacle ten of the championship standings. The 26-year-worn is, useless to claim, joined by fellow Spaniard and reigning Moto2 #1 Pedro Acosta. The 19-year-worn already has Moto3 and Moto2 titles in precisely three years of GP competition and is derived to the MotoGP fray with deserved hype and expectation. 2024 will likely be his first taste of the demands and technical complexities of MotoGP and the preliminary step of what most continuously is a in fact spectacular career.
Crimson Bull GASGAS Tech3 is again led by Nicolas Goyon, for the 2nd season in a row, and with good abet up from the likes of Pol Espargaro in a test rider and supporting role and the crew’s true band of partners and suppliers.
Augusto Fernandez: “Every part was unusual and there was plenty to learn last year but there had been solutions against the tip of the season the build I felt swiftly and admire I had the velocity. I felt chuffed riding the bike but as a rookie you wanted to be very patient and belief the course of. When I achieved 2023 I analyzed the season and saw I had made the steps I needed to rob. I’m taking a gaze ahead to this year because I now have the references of every track with the GASGAS RC16 and I know on Fridays now we need to determine rather quite a lot of enter since it goes to come to a resolution considerable of the weekend. I’m dazzling-proud to be partnering with Crimson Bull, and to have them on the bike. It’s a dream and now we have the entire lot now we need to to find. It’s in our fingers so let’s scramble for it.”
Pedro Acosta: “If I reflect about my career and poke to date then it’s miles relatively good! Nice to mutter I had the alternative to hump for a factory crew in my first season, good to mutter I gained two titles in three years, it’s miles good to mutter I come true into a factory crew for the foremost season in MotoGP. But it’s miles moreover rather advanced to play with the strain, to play with the comments. I don’t want to reflect about outcomes for the time being. I glorious have at some point on the bike, and it’s miles no longer the time to discuss outcomes or targets since it’s miles no longer life like. I could strive and revel in the Malaysia test and rob a stare upon to to find as considerable experience as I will to look at out and be competitive first and most well-known of the season but throughout that we moreover need to rob creep experience to grow step-by-step.”
Nicolas Goyon, Crimson Bull GASGAS Tech3 Group Supervisor: “In 2023 we had rather quite a lot of changes. We had this unusual Dawdle format, and the unusual crew structure but this implies we are living and ready for the coming season. Augusto was solid for his rookie season. For sure, all of us request him to enhance for 2024.He’s amazingly nonetheless! He continuously takes a whereas to reflect about what has took build of living on the track after which to conceal the technique and his feelings. Here is one thing dazzling-critical for the crew to get and living-up the bike. Pedro is a wide skill but my message for the fans could maybe be ‘be patient’. , it’s miles no longer so easy for a rookie to to find. It is advanced now with hump-peak devices and rather quite a lot of electronics. The format of the weekend is moreover advanced and one thing to learn. Let’s give him time. For me, the 2024 Crimson Bull GASGAS Tech3 line-up will likely be even closer to the fans. Both riders are young, and all americans is aware of here’s the level of interest for GASGAS, to connect and excite all these that look MotoGP.”
Hervé Poncharal, Crimson Bull GASGAS Tech3 Group Necessary: “One among the very difficult things that has took build of living this cool weather is the return of Crimson Bull with Tech3, and we are extraordinarily chuffed to have them again featuring on our MotoGP™ bike. This season will likely be extra difficult than ever, with a if fact be told competitive grid: riders and technical functions are so end to every assorted, so I if fact be told keep in mind that we are living for an improbable blow their own horns. Augusto Fernandez learnt plenty last year, and he is prepared to to find and fight for high positions. One among doubtlessly the most difficult possibilities that MotoGP™ has identified in fresh years, Pedro Acosta, will line up for us. His first day on the Valencia test gave us the insurance coverage that he has the entire lot to have an even rookie season, and we are taking a gaze ahead to heading to Sepang to kick things off!”
Pit Beirer, GASGAS Motorsport Director: “2023 was a if fact be told intense year for our first season with GASGAS on the grid but Augusto came in with a wide ability – he is dazzling-determined and a fighter – and gave us a highlight in Le Mans at the side of his 4th build of living. I if fact be told feel the crew tailored if fact be told successfully over the entire season and I’m taking a gaze ahead to seeing what Augusto can develop in his 2nd scramble. With Pedro I reflect the entire paddock and community is of the same opinion that there is a diamond constructing on this sport. He’s a if fact be told special rider, a special rider who has already broken so many files at a young age.Pedro will get us higher and stronger for the prolonged dart, so we are chuffed to have him. I if fact be told feel GASGAS is a if fact be told dynamic build, and taking a gaze to the crew spirit with these two implausible athletes it’s miles certainly the one to scramble looking out out out for in ’24.”
Hubert Trunkenpolz, Member of the Board, Pierer Mobility AG: “One among the the clarification why we went with GASGAS into MotoGP was to compose build consciousness and it labored perfectly. MotoGP is, by some distance, the finest and most successful platform because the media worth and the public attendance is huge and we are completely chuffed we made that shuffle. Now we have gotten a if fact be told difficult aggregate of Augusto and Pedro and a bike that has confirmed it’s miles prepared for trophies. Every person is aware of this could be a prolonged season and the Sprints had been traumatic: the if fact be told determined enlighten is that the fans if fact be told admire [the Sprints], the action on Saturday, and admittedly speaking I moreover admire it. At the tip of the day the fellows are racers. It’s wide to have Crimson Bull onboard this year and I reflect the 2024 livery looks implausible.”
