First he was going to leave through the big door, then his renewal was almost successful, then he was assigned to two other teams, he received the proposal to continue from KTM. The future of Miguel Oliveira in the MotoGP World Championship has been the subject of various news since the beginning of the year, but in the midst of much speculation, an event occurred that changed all the indicators: the invitation accepted by Jack Miller leave Ducati and head for the Austrian national team. From then on, the Portuguese’s chances were reduced. And if at the beginning of the weekend in Mugello he had admitted that, at the end of the race in which he climbed six places to return to the top 10 with ninth position, he took it for granted that the divorce of his usual team is inevitable .
“My situation is that the contract with KTM ends at the end of this year and we will have this month of May and June to negotiate with them. I see my future with optimism and I am very calm. My father, who is my agent, takes care of all this, so that I can relax and do my best on the bike. I’m not worried, because I know that my future is on the MotoGP grid”, he had told Spanish Motorsport before the Spanish Grand Prix, pointing to a quick decision.
“Yes, the Tech3 issue is something that KTM has already told me about. It’s a very recent thing for me. Now I ask myself several times: What could you have done differently? And what else can I do? What else can I do to get to the same position that I have now? I still don’t have an answer for that. I know that there are not many places available in the factory teams. Right now there are a lot of drivers, but not a lot of seats. My ambition is to continue competing in a top team. My contractual situation for next season is still open,” he told Speedweek ahead of the Italian Grand Prix.
“My future will be bright, that’s what I believe in. I believe in my potential and that’s what I work for, obviously. I did not accept the proposal that KTM made me to stay in Tech3 because I think I deserve much more than that. I deserve to be higher. I communicated that if they were not available [para eu ficar com o] place that I currently have in the official team, I would look for another solution. That is what we are doing”, he assumed this Sunday in statements to SportTV.
“For now, there is nothing to advertise. The solution is still very much in the air, the truth is that it is not on the table. We hope to achieve something more concrete in the coming weeks”, he added in a context in which there are two more obvious possibilities for the future of the Portuguese in MotoGP: LCR, the Honda satellite team that can look favorably on the Almada rider. eyes and that they will have made exploratory contacts with their representatives, and Yamaha, in this case in a scenario where they were promoting the Moto2 team, the Yamaha VR46 Master Camp Team, to keep their satellite after the RNF agreement with Aprilia
Source: Observadora
