Herve Poncharal confides in the future of Tech3
In a telephone interview with the organizer of the MotoGP Grands Prix, the boss of the Tech3 team confides in his future and quotes – without naming it! – the manufacturer with whom he will compete in the 2019, 2020 and 2021 seasons of the world championship. Explanations.
The case should be formalized in the coming days: Tech3 will compete with KTM for the 2019, 2020 and 2021 MotoGP seasons. This is what emerges from the that Herve Poncharal, the boss of the Bormes-les-Mimosas team (83), has just awarded the organizer of the Moto Grands Prix.
- MNC of February 22, 2018 :
- MNC Live :
- MNC of August 3, 2017 :
- MNC of March 5, 2018 :
By announcing at the end of February his with Yamaha from next season, Herve Poncharal did not detail his plans, but stressed that he had obtained "an offer which incorporates an element that has been expected almost since the beginnings of Tech3", that he therefore "could not refuse".
We now know more about this decisive element: "we will have a three-year contract from 2019 and we will have the specifications for the current year", specifies the team manager of Tech3 who has been running so far with M1 "satellites" from the previous year.
A manufacturer committed to Moto3, Moto2 and MotoGP
For the next three seasons there will therefore be "four identical motorcycles on the grid, including two aligned by Tech3", continues Herve Poncharal: "it is the dream of any satellite team, because even if the bike that we currently have is very good, its development is frozen during the year. There, we will have the factory behind us ".
Tech3 will therefore pass from the status of "satellite team" to that of official "junior team" … but with which plant? "This manufacturer is involved in Moto3, Moto2 and MotoGP", reveals the team manager without needing to say more insofar as apart from Honda with Kalex in Moto2,: KTM !
"So there will be a kind of continuity, it’s like being part of the family and you know how important it is for me," says Herve Poncharal, whose structure also rides in Moto2 with the Dutch Bo Bendsneyder and Australian Remy Gardner.
Zarco more than deserves official handlebars
"It’s exciting", rejoices in advance the boss of Tech3, because "even if this bike is perhaps slightly below the bike we currently have (the official KTM riders, Pol Espargaro and Bradley Smith, have finished respectively while the "Ready to Race" manufacturer was ranked 5th out of 6, there is room for improvement and you participate in the development in order to make the package better. This is exactly what I expected! "
As for Johann Zarco, currently through these changes, his future belongs to him: "if Johann does not get the handlebars of a factory from 2019, it is because there is something wrong in this world "because" he fully deserves it ", recalls Herve Poncharal. "That’s the only thing he misses to fight for the title" but "clearly that won’t happen at Yamaha. I think he was hoping deep down that Maverick signed elsewhere or that Valentino decided to quit. before, but and "…
- MNC of January 24, 2018 :
- MNC of March 3, 2018 :
"Johann and Laurent (Fellon, his manager, Editor’s note) will examine all the options", concludes the team manager by recalling that "it would be a dream to have him with us and I think it is not impossible, the ball is in his camp. But I let him decide, because I wouldn’t want to push him to do something that later he would regret. Let him look at all the offers and decide ".
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