During the last week Aleix Espargaro spoke of how great Honda is in motosports even coming to consider it the biggest in the category and now, despite having a strong contract with Aprilia and being said to be The Captain within Noale’s manufacturer, the truth is that he himself learned that ‘never say never’, in regards to breaking contracts in the class.
Earlier this week the rider told quoted on DAZN: ‘Honda is always a good option. I always make the same simile, Honda for me is Barcelona, the best [football] team in the world and it is the biggest’, which of course earned him a little more attention from the journalists present at Phillip Island.
The Aprilia Racing rider however said: ‘I don’t have much to say. In english people asked me about the contracts, they thought it was unbelievable that we are talking about riders with contracts. And the only thing I have said is that many people have criticised Marc for breaking a contract, and I think it’s romantic. In relationships everything can be broken sometimes. As long as it is by mutual agreement, and there is understanding on both sides, that’s life, it’s respectable. What doesn’t seem right to me is if it is unilaterally, as sometimes happens with the Moto2 and Moto3 teams’.
He then came to speak of something he learned over the years and how he himself sees things differently nowadays:
– Another thing I have learned in this paddock is that I was a guy with very fixed ideas who said «never, ever». And I’ve learned that «never say never». This sport is crazy and we have seen some very, very strange things. You always have to listen to everything, evaluate everything and put everything on the table. And, above all, you have to feel the sensations you have. But now is not the time to talk about that.