Remy Gardner felt ‘discarded as a rider with how MotoGP career went’
Remy Gardner admits thoughts of retirement came into his head duri🔯🅠ng his time in MotoGP.
168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Remy Gardner stood on the podium for the first time in his WorldSBK career, after claimi൩ng P3 during Race 2 at Assen.
Last onꩲ the podium in Moto2 during his title-winning season, Gardner’s wait has been over two years following a difficult spell in MotoGP.
Despite glimpses of potential in 2023 as a WorldSBk rookie, fighting for a podium never ap🌳peared to ♛be close.
However, Gardner’s for🎀m in 2024 has been very impressive and the Australian took a well deserved podium after missing out on P3 at the final corner of the Superpole Race, just hours prior to Race 2 in Assen.
“It has been really hard, especially with how my MotoGP career went🐠,” said Gardner following his maiden WorldSBK podium.
“It was not good, and I just felt like I was a little discarded as a 🌳rider. It has bee♛n hard, but I’ve always believed in myself, to be honest, and I’ve kept fighting and pushing because there was one point where I could maybe retire and do something else.
“But I kept pushing, believing in my𓄧self, and kept working as hard as ever.
“This♚ third position definitely feels like a win to me, that is why it was so frustrating to miss the podium so ma⛄ny times.
“I think I’ve put in so much work, but finally, good things come to the people who work hard, an♛d it finally pays off.”
Still waiting for his first podium of 2024, Dominique Aegerter had impress🍨ive late race pace but gave himself too much to do following a P19 finish in Superpole.
Aegerter said: ꦺ“This was n🤪ot a bad way to finish the weekend, even though we were expecting more, considering the pace we showed in the final feature race of the weekend.
“The target for the sprint race was the top nine, but it was complicated to get it starting from so far back and we reco🌼vered just a couple of places.
“Then, in Race 2, I had a decent start and I could make my way through the field joini💫ng the group fighting for the podium.
“I had some good battles and the pace was good; to finish just five seconds off the victory starting from 19th is a goodဣ sign, now let’s head to the next round and we’ll have some good test sessions before the next races.”
