Pramac rider Miguel Oliveira says he is \u201cproud\u201d of what he has achieved in MotoGP, but admits \u201cthe timings I joined certain projects was not ideal\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Portuguese rider stepped up to MotoGP<\/a> in 2019, having enjoyed victory success in Moto3 and Moto2 prior to joining the Tech3 KTM squad.<\/p>\n Miguel Oliveira<\/a> served stints with Tech3, the factory KTM squad, RNF, Trackhouse Aprilia and latterly Pramac Yamaha<\/a>, winning five grands prix in his seven seasons so far.<\/p>\n Since scoring his final win with KTM in 2022, fortune has deserted Oliveira, whose moves to satellite Aprilia squads and then Pramac were blighted by numerous injury problems as well as uncompetitive machinery.<\/p>\n As such, he feels the timing of certain moves was wrong – though also acknowledges his own bad luck.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cI take a lot of pride, of course, because until you hang up the bots you don\u2019t really have much time to see what you have don,\u201d he told MotoGP\u2019s Gear Up programme in Indonesia.<\/p>\n \u201cBut it\u2019s true that in MotoGP, that time of reflection came a little bit earlier. I\u2019m proud, of course.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m proud to have been able to take the wins.<\/p>\n \u201cNot many MotoGP riders can say they\u2019ve actually won some races. I\u2019ve won in Moto3, Moto2 and in MotoGP.<\/p>\n \u201cSo, I do take pride in that. I feel also I haven\u2019t done as much as I wanted to.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n \u201cI think the timings that I joined certain projects were maybe not ideal.<\/p>\n \u201cBut also, five percent of luck has not been on my side since joining MotoGP in 2019 up until now.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I do take pride in the way I\u2019ve conducted myself in the paddock in teams.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve made friends with a lot of people and I\u2019ve always had a positive impact on everyone who has gotten to know me.\u201d<\/p>\n Oliveira will move over to the BMW World Superbike team next season, replacing Toprak Razgatlioglu, who in turn shuffled him out of Pramac.<\/p>\n Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n The Portuguese rider could yet have a MotoGP role with Aprilia as a tester, though this will hinge on BMW approval.<\/p>\n Subscribe to our MotoGP Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pramac rider Miguel Oliveira says he is \u201cproud\u201d of what he has achieved in MotoGP, but admits \u201cthe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,3557,806,805,803,804,7188,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-205124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-miguel-oliveira","11":"tag-motor","12":"tag-motor-sports","13":"tag-motosport","14":"tag-motosports","15":"tag-prima-pramac-yamaha","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}