Scott Redding points out next Irish racing star - but other kids “are all soft”

Scott Redding: “The kids now don’✅t have tha꧙t dog in them"

Scott Redding
Scott Redding

168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Scott Redding has explained the difficulty for a British or Irish rider to become a motorcycle racer atꩵ the elite level.

There are no Brits or Irish riders in MotoGP, while Redding is one of six in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:World Superbike Championship.

But the top of the sport is still dominate𝔉d by Italian and Spanish riders.

Redding believes the pathway to the🔯 top - although it is difficult - is too ꧒challenging for the younger generation.

“In my day, you need to be going to grands prix 🎶at 15 or 16. If you’re not, then you miss the boat at 17 or 18. Forget 🍃it,” Redding told the Motorsport Republica podcast.

“There is🤡 a small window. So, to get the t🎃iming of it right is already hard.

꧂“To be an Englishꦇ guy and go to grands prix you either need a lot of money, or to have a lot of talent and dedication and hard work. Those things go a lot way.

“I was๊ never fortunate enough to have money. That was the issue I had. I had to dominate everything to give them no option, basically.

“The kids now don’t have that dog in them. Back in the day, I got beaten hard🐽. You hear this a lot with riders who are older than me,

“It was not fun for us. Winning is fun. Winning is what I do it ꦚfo🅘r.

“But getting there? I🌜f I꧙ was not riding well, and my dad had driven for five hours, and I decided that I didn’t want to race?

“I’d get slapped about then I’d win. Kids n𓂃ow think they own the house. In my day, I didn’t own the house.

“We were hardcore. We had racing in us. Now? I don’t see ma🔜ny with that.”

Scott Redding points to the next Irish talent

Redding has picked out one teenage star with the toughness and the taꦅlent to succeed.

“T🦂he only one I see ♔is Casey O’Gorman. He’s an Irish kid,” he said.

“He came to my S♕cott Redding Young Riders Academy when he was three or four!

“He was fast straight away, ruthl🔯ess, didn’t care about crashing.

“He is racing in the Junior world championship now, doing preꦚtty good.

“But, no money. Just hard work. His dad was grafting, dri♕ving to and from Spain. He has been kicked out of teams because h🎐e didn’t agree with what they were doing.

“I’ve been through all of that. What you are doing is the right path. That’s why y👍ou are in the 1%, in the Spanish championship fighting for podiums.”

O’Gorman, 17, is in the Red Bull Rookies Cup.

Redding said: “Being a nice guy doesn’t get you anywhere, if you d♌on’t have the🧸 dough.

ꦺ“If you’ve got the dough, you can do what you want, because money talks.

“The kids a𒅌ren’t built like t🐷his anymore, they’re all soft.

"I like🌜 guys with talent and rawness. I went through that path and would never ❀change that."

But O’Gorman, he believes, can break the mould.

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