“ Our season will start on July 19 , in Jerez , in Spain , with limited personnel and no spectators ” he said . “ The MotoGP scene will be chaos , for sure . Also , with the protocol that we have to follow health-wise , it won ’ t be a lot of fun . Basically just track and hotel and staying away for three weeks , home for a week , and then off again for three weeks . “ The extra strain comes from being in those environments for that long , not so much the work . We normally only have one three-week run every year , and everyone is pumped when that is over , so to do three like that back-to-back for sure will lead to some tension inside the teams . That is something that I will need to handle delicately on my side of the box . “ I have a super team , but you know we are all from different countries and have all different ways to do things , so , in the end , just having to do things differently than you would normally annoys people , but I ’ m sure we will handle it .” With Espargaro possibly moving away from
KTM , it raises a few questions for Trevathan . “ Pol and myself have a great relationship and we have become very good friends , so it will not be easy if he goes . You know , there is always the idea of should I go with him and normally it is not a hard choice . “ But things are different with KTM and I am really part of this project and a lot of me has gone into this bike and project and it woul be nice to close the book completely . So the chance of a new rider [ for me ] to attend to , is high .
MOTOGP LIFE “ Looking at going to another GP , I will start preparing at home for the GP from the Wednesday of the week before . The first job is to sort out the gearbox that you want to run , then give that info to my electronic engineer so he / she can start preparing the start setting on the electronic side . Then I will go over the data from the track from last year , check the chassis and suspension spec and prepare what ideas you want to try , then make the start spec for the
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