" Álex [Márquez] has been left in no man's land before running. It seems strange to me. Who knows what is behind this movement. If it's a great season, what's going to happen? Will there be a third bike to Alex, I think Pol [Espargaró] will do well, but I'm not close enough to Honda to say anything else. " Despite his relationship with Honda and being interviewed in an official program of the MotoGP World Championship, 'A sit down with', a format for YouTube, Mick Doohan was not shy on Tuesday in his criticism of the Japanese brand. According to several sources, the rarest signing in recent years in MotoGP could be made official in the coming days and much of the paddock is still missing.

Honda is close to closing the arrival of Pol Espargaró to his official team, to place him as a partner of Marc Márquez and the decision seems difficult to understand. And not because of Espargaró's history. Due to his career, a rival to Márquez himself since childhood, Moto2 champion in 2013, exerted in MotoGP with the KTM, it is logical that it counts for the big manufacturers, but the case is that he will separate someone who has just arrived. To someone who, in fact, has not even been able to debut: Álex Márquez.

After Jorge Lorenzo's retirement and with the majority of contract riders, Honda decided last November to sign the brother-in-law, current Moto2 champion, for his official team and now he degrades him without further ado. Quite possibly it will end in the satellite team, the LCR, in the place of Cal Crutchlow or Takaaki Nakagami , but obviously it will not be the same. The move would help Álex Márquez join the MotoGP without the pressure of obtaining immediate results and far from constant comparison with his brother, but it greatly reduces his figure.

The feeling is that in the official trainings carried out before the break by the coronavirus Álex Márquez, he proved unable to compete for podiums in his first seasons in the category. In the Malaysian test, for example, he was always out of the top 10, half a second from Crutchlow's time. As it happened to him in Moto2, his arrival to the highest category will possibly require a patience that the official Honda team does not have after the last seasons of Dani Pedrosa and the failure with Lorenzo.

"I can only confirm that there are conversations," said Mike Leitner , the head of the KTM, already resigned with the departure of Pol Espargaró to Honda. "Of course, we will try to keep Pol with us, but we know for sure that he has another option. We need a decision now because we need to plan our future," added the leader. The rarest signing in recent years in MotoGP is close to being a fact and much of the paddock is still missing.

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