'When you have so much bad luck it's like there is somebody in the sky saying, 'Tech3 won’t do it!' So Miguel's victory was fantastic for all of us' – Herve Poncharal talks first MotoGP win, after 20 years of trying.
What was going through your mind as those three guys went into the final turn? Did you expect something like that from Miguel or were you mainly thinking about trying to keep hold of a podium?Three laps from the finish I could see that, if there was no stupid move or too much aggressivity, the podium was a reality. Already I was so happy because as I said, a podium in front of the KTM management would mean a lot to me.
When you have hot situations on track, Miguel always tries to keep a part of his brain a bit cool in order to think clearly. So it was exciting and beautiful to watch, but I'd be lying if I said I knew it was going to happen like that! I just knew that, out of the three, Miguel would be the coolest and the one thinking the most.But we also have to be humble and say that Miguel could do that move because of that special situation at the last corner, which nobody could have predicted until it happened.
I think at that moment Pol and Jack were just looking at each other. And they almost forgot Miguel, who has been cool and clever. But nobody did anything stupid and all three of them deserved the win.Miguel also deserved some luck after the previous races…I think we deserved that win because in Jerez we were taken down at Turn 1 when we could have been on the podium, I'm pretty sure. Then in Spielberg 1, there was definitely the possibility of a top five.
So when we first started to test in January, KTM's 2020 bike was already that competitive. But everybody at a test is focussed on one lap and people draw conclusions on one lap. Sometimes you do one fast lap with the soft tyres and everybody's impressed, but the rest of the laps are not so fast. Sometimes you don’t want to show your potential at all.
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