In the latter part of the Moto2 season, Fermín Aldeguer was in the spotlight securing four wins in the last four races, and his potential move to MotoGP in 2024 was speculated, both with Repsol Honda and the VR46 Racing Team. However, he will remain in the intermediate category with SpeedUp.
Luca Boscoscuro, the team owner, believes that this was the right decision, as he said on the 4chiacchierecon show: ‘Let’s not forget that just two months ago, he was struggling, and moving to MotoGP didn’t make sense. He has all the time to do it in 2025 as the first option, not to fill a gap’.
Aldeguer’s contract with the Italian team was already signed, and Boscoscuro never feared losing the rider to outside pressures: ‘I never thought that Dorna would intervene to take him away, also because MotoGP already has too many Spanish riders: I would have been concerned if my rider was from another nationality. For me, losing him like that in November would have been a disaster’.
However, the SpeedUp team manager highlighted that Aldeguer didn’t do enough to merit a promotion to MotoGP in 2024: ‘While he won the last four races, that’s not sufficient to be ready to move to MotoGP, a category where you need a lot of experience: he still has to complete his journey, especially when facing tough times, which is normal in a category like MotoGP where all the riders are very fast’.