Not a day goes by without a reading of a passage from the autobiography ofAndrea Dovizioso. “Asphalte” is the title and it’s published by Mondadori. If you liked the passage on a Lorenzo whose career he ended up influencing, the freeze frame about Iannone, the writing on the state of affairs at Ducati after the passage of Rossi, you will love the anecdote about a Stoner who would never have joined the red house if Dovi had first said yes to him…
It just goes to show that nothing is written in Grand Prix. There are default choices that later turn out to be strokes of genius. This is the case of Casey Stoner, requested by Ducati in 2007, but well after other names... The one who was then still far from being the DesmoDovi of today Explain : " I was then in 250 and Ducati asked me to go to MotoGP. I took it as a big leap into the unknown. My goal then was to stay in the Honda orbit, to stay with them in 250 and try to win the title. To continue my path towards the HRC ».
Which he ended up achieving, but not with the expected results: “ I have no regrets about my refusal, because I was not ready. And I am proud to have had the courage to recognize it. Ducati therefore hired Stoner, and he wrote one of the most beautiful chapters of our sport ". Indeed, at the end of the 2007 season, the Australian was World Champion with the Desmosedici.
