What is the best route to access MotoGP in ideal conditions? Should the mere opportunity to access it be taken apart from all other considerations? Some come from Superbike, others cut their teeth in Moto3 and Moto2 and only one jumped from Moto3 to MotoGP. His name is Jack Miller and he recently said that Moto2 was useless. It's exactly the opposite of what you think Scott Redding.
Moto2 was seriously mishandled by Jack Miller in a recent interview. It must be said that the winner of Assen last year has as his teammate a former terror and even World Champion in this category named Tito Rabat. Last season, he made his debut among the elite and the Australian, who was in his second campaign, did not have to suffer from his performances, far from it.
However, the majority of the protagonists in the paddock do not hesitate to consider Moto2 as a futile stage. There is even a pilot who is a fierce advocate of it, thus taking the exact opposite view of Jack Miller. This is Scott Redding who, on Motorsport, downright regrets his early rise in MotoGP, imposed by his very good size: “ I always said I was forced to find myself where I am now” begins the Briton. “First, I didn't want to go to Moto2 so early but my height and weight forced me to do so ».
It will be remembered that the Pramac driver is 1m85 tall and weighs 78 kilos. “ I wanted to stay in 125cc for one more season and I also wanted to stay in Moto2 for another year to prepare myself well for MotoGP ". An astonishing regret but it must be said that in 125, Redding experienced the joy of being the winner of his national Grand Prix at the age of 15 on an Aprilia in 2008. And that in Moto2, he was playing for victory and the title, moreover just missing out against Pol Espargaro in 2013.
However since he has been in MotoGP, there is not much to sink his teeth into. And last year, he lost his internal battle against Petrucci for winning a GP17 this season. A Petrucci, who, by the way, has never done Moto2… But Redding continues: “ you see that everyone arriving this season comes from Moto2 and they will have good bikes to start with. I had a Honda that was incapable of making a top 15 at Gresini in 2014. In 2015, I had a so-called factory machine at Marc VDS that was actually worse than the previous one. ».
« I spent two years rowing for nothing. I still showed my potential on a few occasions. But a year before my arrival in MotoGP, I was competing for the world title in Moto2. In 2017 I hope that with the new Ducati I can get out of the back of the pack ». Redding will in fact have a GP16 and he will have Christian Pupulin, former chief mechanic of Dovizioso, in place of Giacomo Guidotti who left to serve the cause of Dani Pedrosa.
