There are sometimes riders whose determination screams in your face that they will eventually make it to MotoGP!
For example, it was enough to see the anonymous Brad Binder during his debut in Moto3 to convince himself of this.
The boy trained every day, tirelessly, for long minutes, to go as quickly as possible from the position lying on the tank to the position “on the brakes”. Violent ! Very violent ! To gain a few hundredths of a second...
“One day he will be world champion” said Steve, his agent at the time, to anyone who wanted to hear it without really believing it. They probably hadn't seen the boy training...
Brad Binder was world champion in 2016 in Moto3 and vice-world champion last year in Moto2. The rest, we know it…
Another boy is currently calling out to the paddock. Aron Canet.
He too, without mentioning it, had to make big sacrifices to climb the first steps of the staircase that leads to MotoGP. His problem is his physique: stocky and heavy! In Moto3, that's hardly forgiving, so last year the Spanish rider imposed a very dangerous diet on himself: Stop eating! Even if it means passing out…
“In Moto3, I had to weigh 62 kilos and not eat anything, and I felt dizzy. Sometimes when I got up from the couch I fell on the floor, I couldn't sleep because I was hungry, I was in a lot of pain. In Moto3, no one has had such bad times as me. Having to take melatonin and sleeping pills at 03:00 a.m. because I couldn't sleep due to hunger, then waking up at 06:00 a.m. to work out. »
Enough to destroy you but also build your character, and he did it, obtaining the title of runner-up in the Moto3 world last season before moving to Moto2 this year. At the same time, his tattoos gradually developed, starting from his right leg and finally, today, covering most of his body.
Here again, there is no doubt about the determination…
“Everyone here tells me don't do this, don't do that, otherwise I won't be able to work in the future, teams won't want me. But this is the meaning of the tattoo: “I'm going to do it now, because nothing will happen”."
One thing is certain, we like or we don't like his tattoos, but Arón Canet does not leave you indifferent, and by adapting so quickly to the Moto2 category (8th in the general classification and pole position in Styria), some eyebrows are starting already getting up in the MotoGP paddock…
And then he promised: “ No more tattoos because there is no more room for them. » To have…
