It has merit, much merit, the season that Raúl Ferández has signed in Moto2. Seven wins and seven poles in his debut year, fighting for the World Cup until the last race with Remy gardner and in conflict with KTM, because he would have preferred to make the leap to MotoGP with Yamaha and the Austrian factory enforced the contract he had, while, as a result of anger over his flirtations with the house of tuning forks, which wanted him in the satellite team, he left his brother, Pitito, no motorcycle initially for next season. All this led the one from San Martín de la Vega to be about to break with KTM and stay in Moto2, enrolled in the new Yamaha VR46 Master Camp team, But in the end things turned around with KTM, he will debut in 2022 in MotoGP in the Tech 3 KTM and his brother will race with the Tech 3 KTM of Moto3, sharing the box with Dennis Öncü.
“It was closed that Raúl went to race at the Yamaha VR46 Master Camp, but in the end Yamaha backed down to avoid conflicts with KTM”, assures this newspaper a perfectly informed source of this story. The tension that Raúl has endured these months must have been enormous and now it is even better understood that he has chosen to work with a psychologist this season and also the enigmatic statements he made yesterday at Ricardo Tormo. It was when I asked him to take stock of his first and only season in Moto2: “I think it’s a high note, but at the same time there are things for which I really haven’t gotten to enjoy the year. For X reasons there have been times that have been very hard and we really haven’t had anyone behind to help us. There are things that if they had given my team more support throughout the year, I think we could have done better or enjoyed it more. Better I think it’s difficult, but if we had had a hand that would have wrapped us up, I think we would have done a little better. “