Did you like a senior official's act of contrition? Yamaha admitting its powerlessness in the face of competition? The internal bickering at Suzuki triggered by a Iannone who does not feel treated fairly compared to his teammate Rins has not left you indifferent? Then you'll love Scott Redding's latest release on the situation at Aprilia...
It's nothing to say that the last Austrian Grand Prix was an ordeal for the RS-GP drivers. Aleix Espargaro finished seventeenth and his teammate Scott Redding twentieth. Enough to ask serious questions about the situation of the Noale manufacturer in the category.
Scott Redding, for his part gives his answer, and it is quite direct: “ this weekend in Austria was horrible, a real disaster. Having a meeting like that breaks my heart. I give my best but everything always goes wrong. Every time you get on the bike, everything is different. There's always a problem with something and it's like that every weekend ».
Disillusioned, he insists: “ I'm trying to come to terms with it, but I'm not happy. I'm going to go to Silverstone now, smile at everyone and say that I'm going to try to do well, but that's just bullshit. We can not do anything. You can't turn lead into gold. Even if we try! I had high expectations from the Misano tests where a new engine was announced. Then I discover that the three days of testing go to two and now to one ».
With no future at the moment, it was proposed to Scott Redding to be Aprilia's test driver in 2019. Not sure that the proposal will still hold after this release relayed by corsedimoto. Words which should not reassure a Andrea Iannone who signed for two years with the RS-GP…
