Valentino Rossi, former champion’s admission: “For MotoGp is a difficult time.”

Pons website speaks for itself

Without Valentino Rossi, MotoGP is no longer the same. Only the naysayers, with the clear and obvious goal of ruffling the OVRs, say otherwise while the champions, or former champions, as in this case, look for solutions.

“For MotoGp it is a difficult moment,” Sito Pons points out, speaking to Marca, “It has lost a point of reference like Valentino Rossi and to this has been added the injury of Marc Marquez. There is a phase of impasse that must be overcome but if MotoGp has overcome two years of pandemic this situation will also pass.”

The two-time world champion then revealed a backstory: with his team, when he learned that Suzuki was leaving MotoGp, he tried to convince Dorna to give him the seat that the Japanese will occupy up to and including 2022 before stepping aside: “If we had had the opportunity, we would have taken the step, Carmelo Ezpeleta knows we are there, but the answer was clear: he could not put in another private team because his goal was to replace a Factory team with another Factory team.”