Every Grand Prix weekend, every chance that arose. Let’s rewind the film and the past pages to understand the rest of the novel: rumors began to emerge between Spain and France of a possible continuity of Miguel Oliveira in KTM; in Italy, Jack Miller was already a fact at KTM but there was the Tech3 hypothesis for the Portuguese (which existed, even with a higher salary); in Catalunya, the Almada rider assumed that he would only stay if he was in the factory KTM team and was seen in boxes of Gresini Racing, of Ducati. And until the prelude to the race in Germany, it seemed almost inevitable to go to the team that is even sponsored by a Portuguese company, OLI, from Aveiro, and that should promote Enea Bastianini to the position of the Australian, getting a place.
“Yes, I will be on the MotoGP grid”: Miguel Oliveira announces a new team in the coming days (and he did not only speak with Ducati)
After all, everything seems to have changed. And if there was already talk of a very remote possibility that Yamaha promotes the team that is in Moto2 to a satellite team and talks with Honda in the face of a position in the LCR, Aprilia’s hypothesis It looks like it’s starting to take shape.
“My goal is to have a competitive bike and that is the case with Ducati.” Miguel Oliveira confirms rumors but says he has an “open future”
The day after the date that was believed to be definitive for the announcement of a decision, the newspaper Marca and then other Spanish media released the news that Miguel Oliveira would even go to the transalpine brand, staying as one of the pilots of the new RNF which will be a satellite team from 2023. Two days later, the same information was reinforced on the MotoGePeando YouTube program with journalist Manuel Peccino and Chicho Lorenzo, father of former Spanish rider Jorge Lorenzo.
Gresini’s ad was different, Oliveira did not talk about the future but not everything is the same: “Sitting with other brands motivated me”
“Chicho, I have to tell you something that I shouldn’t say now but that we now know. Finally we can say that Miguel will be an Aprilia rider next year, in the new satellite team, Razlan Razali’s RNF. I don’t know if it was him who said no to Ducati or if it was Ducati who said no to him, but for me Miguel chose the option with the most future,” journalist Manuel Peccino told Chicho Lorenzo, a person also close to Aprilia and that already last week had highlighted the Portuguese, even talking about a mistake if KTM did not hold the rider to the detriment of the rookie Miller.
Miguel Oliveira’s soap opera knows another chapter and the future of the Portuguese cannot go through Ducati
Now, a few days before free practice for the Dutch Grand Prix in Assen, the news comes from Italy but along the same lines as it had come from Spain before: according to Sky Italia, which has the rights to MotoGP. on transalpine soil, Miguel Oliveira will have already reached an agreement with Aprilia for two seasons to be one of the riders for Razlan Razali’s new RNF, in what is described as “a big blow to the market” for securing someone “quite talented” and who has already managed to win four races in the main motorcycle category. The news also mentions that, contrary to what was stated, Álex Rins will occupy one of Honda’s places in the LCR (and not in Aprilia’s RNF) and that Gresini Racing keeps a vacant place since it is increasingly likely that Enea Bastiani replace Jack Miller. at Ducati.
Source: Observadora
