Although becoming a MotoGP pilot is the dream of most pilots since they begin in the minimotos, only a very small number manage to arrive. The screen is so exaggerated that of all the pilots in the world, only about 30 including test pilots and substitutes are put at the controls of these machines, and it is no accident.
The level they are acquiring in the previous categories, where they leave other applicants behind, make all those who reach MotoGP do so with a level that is not easy to understand for the rest. So much so that even the pilots who go up ahead of time or without having a brilliant curriculum, have so much quality that only many other pilots could match.
The problem is that to compare a MotoGP pilot we can only regularly compare it with another MotoGP driver, and at that point many other factors such as the motorcycle, the team, the moment, the circuit … so being able to see Augusto Fernández training with a Yamaha R6 like any fan in a karting, it makes clear what they are capable of.
Although the video was recorded during the past summer, when Augusto was an official gas pilot and before his passage to Yamaha, he has now come to light and can be seen in the Karting Saller, a place that other professional drivers also use to train usually, on fire on a Yamaha R6.
What few do with a Supermotard, a MotoGP pilot does it with a large motorcycle
You have to think that it is a track designed for karts and small motorcycles, and being able to go quickly on it with a large motorcycle is even more complicated because there is no room for error. It is not like the great modern kartodromes, Saller’s is a circuit of the old school, although also very fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfhrhbglute
The fact is that Augusto works with his Yamaha R6 as another would do it with a pitbike or a supermotard, but leading to the limit each of the past that we can see in the video. A way to train that is not available to the majority and denotes Fernández’s talent and, of course, the talent that any MotoGP driver has today.
