Reflecting on the 2024 MotoGP season, Augusto Fernandez's performance with Tech3 GASGAS was notably less impressive compared to his 2023 season. The stark contrast is further emphasized by the success of his teammate, Pedro Acosta.
As we all wind down into a quiet winter at the end of a busy MotoGP season, it offers us a chance to reflect on the campaign that unfolded across 2024. Perhaps not unfairly, few will look back fondly over Augusto Fernandez ’s final season with the Tech3 GASGAS squad.
Acosta’s super rookie year led him to sixth in the standings, missing out on top non-Ducati honours by just two points to veteran stablemate Brad Binder. Acosta scored nine podiums to Binder’s two and came the closest any KTM did to challenging for a win. It’s also easy to forget that Fernandez is a grand prix world champion at Moto2 level, something Acosta’s crew chief - and Espargaro’s before that - Paul Trevathan was keen to point out when speaking with Crash.net at the Solidarity GP.
His team worked tirelessly over the year to try and find a solution, even swapping crew chief Alex Merhand out for Alberto Giribuola later in the season - though this was also a means of getting the engineer back up to speed in that role ahead of his renewed association with Enea Bastianini, whom he was last with at Gresini in 2022, next year.
He didn’t ride the M1 at the test due to Yamaha needing to get its new project with Yamaha off the ground. Fernandez thinks there will be an outing in December at a private test: with KTM also set to test at Jerez this month, it’s likely Fernandez’s Yamaha track debut may come then. Crucially for Fernandez, he will get all six wildcard outing on the M1 next year.
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