After spending four years at KTM, Pol Espargaro had just five days of pre-season testing to get settled in at Repsol Honda before starting the 2021 MotoGP season. It was nowhere near enough time to understand a tricky machine that only Marc Marquez had won races on since early 2018. To make matters more complicated for Espargaro, Marquez was still missing, sidelined by his infected arm fracture and deny his new team-mate of the chance to learn from his data. "At the beginning of the year, I didn't know how to improve the problems and control the situation. I was too new for this bike," Espargaro admitted. "We were trying different things to try to improve the bike, but I...
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