The end of an era! This Sunday, in Valencia, Miguel Oliveira put an end to his connection with KTM after seven seasons. At the Gran Premio de la Comunitat Valenciana, Falcão finished his last orange race in 5th position.
With five MotoGP victories with KTM (two this year, in Indonesia and Thailand), Miguel Oliveira left 14th place on the starting grid of the Gran Premio de la Comunitat Valenciana. At the time of farewell, and as he mentioned the day before, Falcão had only one wish: recover positions, reach the first places in the race.
In this way, Miguel Oliveira tried to attack from the beginning, however, carrying out a very strategic race, since the 27 laps of Valencia required good tire management.
With some crashes and overtaking, Miguel Oliveira gained position after position and ended up taking sixth position with only 11 laps to go, when he overtook the new world champion, Francesco Bagnaia.
After another fall, this time from Jack Miller, the Portuguese climbed up one more position and ended up finishing the grand prix with an honorable fifth place, when he left the starting grid in 14th position. In other words, we had a great farewell to Falcão in Valencia, a farewell that proves all his competitiveness and competence, in a race that was won by Alex Rins, curiously in the last Suzuki race in MotoGP.
And it is with 5th position that Miguel Oliveira puts an end to his connection with KTM. The future is now with the RNF MotoGP Racing Team, a future that already starts next Tuesday, with pre-season testing to be held precisely in Valencia, starting at 9:00 am. A new era begins…
