Pol Espargaro is set to leave KTM at the end of the year and join Marc Marquez at the factory Honda team for the 2021 MotoGP season, Autosport has learned. The 2013 Moto2 world champion made his MotoGP debut in 2014 with the Tech3 Yamaha squad, before moving to KTM to spearhead its works effort from 2017. A valuable asset for the Austrian marque, securing its first podium at a wet Valencia race in 2018 and putting the RC16 onto the front row in the dry at Misano last year, KTM has recently expressed its desire to retain the Spaniard. Linked with a move to Ducati, this avenue was closed off last week when the Italian marque confirmed Jack Miller would be promoted from Pramac. Though the...
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