At the end of the last race of the 2017 MotoGP world championship which ended with a Honda victory while the two official Ducatis had gone to the ground, the men of the transalpine team went to congratulate their colleagues from the Japanese team.
A beautiful gesture which upholds sporting values and which Neil Morrison asked Davide Tardozzi, Team manager of the Ducati MotoGP team, to comment for the site crash.net.
Davide Tardozzi : “I was surprised that Honda was surprised that we were going to congratulate them. I told the guys, 'Please go to Honda and congratulate them.' They beat us. They were better than us. Why not do it? I think it's fair. It's a competition. It's not a war. So we have to be proud of our season, but we also have to recognize that they were better. For us, this is completely normal. It's not a strange thing. Honda was good. Honda has a fantastic driver. So we'll see next year. »
May this attitude of respect relax a little for a part of the public whose fanaticism certainly does no good to motorcycling sport!
On this subject, we will recall the “Stop bullying” campaign led since last year by the Repsol Honda team to say no to harassment towards drivers in general, and Marc Márquez as far as they are concerned… (see here)
