Tech 3 team boss Hervé Poncharal says ‘the best is yet to come’ from rider Bradley Smith, who finished 6th in the 2015 MotoGP drivers’ championship.
2014 was a turnaround year for Bradley Smith, the Tech 3 Yamaha rider had no less than five crashes at the German Grand Prix in 2014. After that disastrous weekend for the number 38 rider, Smith had no choice but to make changes.
The rest of the season saw Smith improve but rarely get the better of teammate Pol Espargaro.
The 2015 season has seen the Brit not only improve but astonish many people that thought the Tech 3 team were taking a huge risk signing Smith for another year. The satellite rider finishing 6th in the championship standings, three places ahead of teammate Espargaro who finished 9th.
Smith being one of only two riders to score points in every single race of the season, the other being Valentino Rossi.
Poncharal says Smith has learnt to trust the teams around him and remaining more calm and relaxed through a race weekend, allowing him to go about his work in a better state of mind.
“This year Bradley did something that not a lot of people believed he could do,” Poncharal told Crash.net
“Bradley was one of the surprises of the season, to see him regularly beating his team-mate, being the only rider other than Vale to score points in every single race and only finishing outside the top eight once. Compare that to 2014 when he had five crashes in one weekend, in Germany”.
