Ducati hit back at Yamaha over Bautista criticism: ‘They have bigger problems’
Serafino Foti hit✅s back at Paul Denning’s claim that Alvaro Bautista has acted ‘p🀅athetic’.
Paul Denning allegedly called 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Alvaro Bautista’s complaints over the new minimum WorldSBK weight limit for rider and bike ‘pathetic’.
Bautista, who after suffering a shoulder injury a🅠t the end of last season, has struggled to be at the front of the field due to the new weight limit rule which has impacted him m💟ore than any other rider.
And as 🧜a result, Bautista has not been shy in his criticism of the new rule𓆏, including when speaking to mahbx.com prior to the season getting underway.
“It’s not fair to add more weight,” said Bautista during our exclusive interview. “In the🧸 end, the rule 𒅌is not made for me, it’s for the championship but I’m the only rider who has to put weight on the bike.
“I’m the only rider that is penalised bꦚy this rule. And for me it’ཧs not fair that, if me and Ducati work hard and well and we arrive at a good performance, that’s it’s fair to penalise good work.
“I understand that they want to make a very competitive championsh♐ip, but I think it’s better to help the other manufacturers or the other riders like they did in MotoGP with some concession - but to improve their level, not to penalise our performance.
“For me, I understand that they want a more competitive championship anꦗd I agree, but don’t penalise my performance.
“If my performance is high, why do you take my performance down 𝄹𓂃to equal out the championship? No! You have to help the others to arrive at my performance.
“I’m angry because it’s not fair that they penalise you when you do good work. In life, when you do things well people have to app✨laud you.
“Here, you do good work and you have to go down and be worse. I don’t understand but it is the mentality of this championship. It is a bi🅠t strange.”
However, Denning has not felt sorry for the two-time wor🍬ld champion, reportedly telling Motorsport-tot♍al that his complaints were ‘pathetic’.
As a result, Bautista’s Aruba.it Ducati team principal, Se💜rafino Foti has come to the defence of the Spaniard.
Speaking to , Foti said: “I think certain declarations are d♔isrespectful to a two-time world champion. Alvaro has deservedly won two world championships.
“Also, before thinking about others, I think it is better to look closer to home, because it seems ✨to me that Yamaha has bigger problems than Bautista.
From this point of view I want to be clear becau📖se I am curious to understand how the regulation has been interp🌊reted by others.
“I want to do this so that we can bring thi🌟s issue to an end definitively.”
Foti also when into further detail about the challenges Bautista has faced, becau𒀰se the ex-MotoGP rider has not only lost weight, but the weight of his Pani🐬gale V4 R has increased.
Foti stated: “Today, Bautista’s bike weights 5kg more than last year. How🅰 we applied the weight is another matter because the regulations allow ꩲit.
“Irrespective of everything, what matters is the꧑ weight at the endꦍ of the race, which has to be 173kg.
“I am personally surprised when I read certain considerations because it will probably be true that we have 2-3kg of ballast, but the bi🐭ke weighs 5kg more than last year.”
