For the Tech3 owner, the season ended with a flourish in Portimão. He confesses the tension he went through this morning until he saw the chess flag, as well as the sadness of losing Miguel Oliveira in the neighboring Red Bull KTM box.
HERVÉ PONCHARAL:“We are very proud, very happy to have given Miguel the opportunity to win this event at home, which I know is something very important to him. It was the perfect weekend for us: good weather, an excellent circuit, pole position, victory and fastest lap. I don’t think we can ask for anything more to finish the season “.
Transfer from Oliveira to Red Bul KTM
“The sad thing is that Miguel is going to leave us for our neighboring box, but we are all very happy and above all we love Portugal, adds Hérve Poncharal, who has known our country since the time of his MotoGP tour with Estoril.”
High emotions up to the chess flag
“Now I feel good, but as this morning we were tense, during the race I couldn’t speak, I couldn’t say anything because when you lead a race from turn one to the checkered flag it becomes a very long race, and we just pray that there are no mistakes, nothing happens, so for almost 25 laps I couldn’t even breathe well. Congratulations to Miguel, he was fantastic! “
