Moto2 frontrunner Miguel Oliveira will graduate to MotoGP next year after agreeing one-year deal to join the KTM-backed Tech3 team. Oliveira stepped up to Moto2 in 2016 with the Leopard team after finishing the '15 Moto3 season as runner-up with the Ajo KTM team, returning to the Austrian marque's ranks last year for its debut in the Moto2 class. Winning the final three races of last season, Tech3 boss Herve Poncheral said on Thursday at Jerez that Oliveira had been offered a deal to join his squad by KTM and was his preferred option. “It is very early in the season but I am really happy that KTM have seen enough from this year and the last to trust me and believe I deserve...
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