With MotoGP in India for the first time, the riders have to learn a track they’ve never been on before. Pol Espargaró (GasGas Tech3/KTM) believes that it’s not one of the most challenging in this regard, considering the almost absence of blind corners in the layout.
Asked about what is most challenging to learn at a new circuit, the Spanish rider replied: ‘I think a little bit of everything. What is good in this place is that there is quite long straight between the corners. So, it means you have time to see the corner is coming. For example, I remember the first time we were in Qatar it was very tricky and difficult to learn because there are a lot of blind corners – where you don’t see the entry of the corner. So, it was very difficult to understand the speed approaching to the corner. And for me, for example Qatar was one of the hardest to understand, to learn and to be fast’.
When it comes to the Buddh International Circuit, Espargaró doesn’t expect significant learning challenges: ‘Here is good because you see all the corners from the corner before. There is maybe one or two corners that you need to learn because it’s uphill. But, overall, I believe the learning process will be much better. But anyway I already did quite a lot of laps on the track and I know more or less what I will find’.