The rider Miguel Oliveira this Friday promised a season of “maximum performance and total dedication” in MotoGP, where he will make his debut in the RNF Aprilia, aiming to beat himself “with the riders at the top” of the standings.
“I can promise maximum effort and total dedication from Aprilia. A good season is one in which we finally manage to compete with the top riders. That will be the goal”he stressed to journalists, on the sidelines of renewing his contract with a financial company that has sponsored him since 2017.
Miguel Oliveira switched from KTM to RNF Aprilia this season and admitted that he is still adapting to the new challenge, but he found the bike “competitive, which requires a different type of riding style and well tuned”, without going into technical details . “Riding well, it’s a bike that can give us a lot of fun and take us where I want to go”guaranteed, although he stressed during the renewal ceremony that “the automatisms, which had already been created and have taken root, must be adapted again”, which “takes time” and will prevent him from starting this MotoGP championship “at 100%”.
The first race will take place precisely in Portugal, at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, between March 24 and 26, but despite being “special” to take part in your country’s Grand Prix, the question “regardless of where to start you”.
“We still have two days of testing to go. We will try to make the most of the time on the track and the conditions, get to know the bike even better and prepare as best we can for the Portuguese Grand Prix.”said the 28-year-old resident of Almada about the preparation.
There has been news in recent days that Miguel Oliveira saw an opportunity to move up to the factory Aprilia team, but the Portuguese stressed that “there is nothing on the table” and “the next two years are very decided”. “The goal is to get to the factory team, it’s not to stay in the satellite team, but that doesn’t stop me from getting good results in the satellite team as well. So we will do as much as possible with Aprilia, but for now with RNF”explained Miguel Oliveira.
The Portuguese driver will have Spaniard Raúl Fernández as his teammate, while the factory team consists of Castilian Maverick Viñales and Aleix Espargaró. “It gives me more peace of mind to know that I have mapped out my destiny for the next two years, but I have to do my best. Nothing is guaranteed in this championship and we have to work every weekend to earn our victory.” place”shot down the pilot.
After an initial testing period in Malaysia, the final preparation phase will follow, in the Algarve, on March 11-12, but Miguel Oliveira stated that “they are always very indecisive when it comes to figuring out who will be stronger”. “For now we have to count on everyone and see when one or the other rider jumps out. At the moment I count on everyone (as an opponent)”he claimed.
Source: DN
