Happened upon this: Not my usual source of inspiration ... Crutchlow: Ducati lied to me about 2013 works seat - MotoGP news - AUTOSPORT.com Make of it what you will ...
Mess the only Brit rider about and I won't be supporting them, or buying their bl**dy T-shirts again!
First thoughts were AH speech impediment . Then after reading Thought . Thats about what to expect from Ducati these days. Now make crap bikes with crap service , and worst of all , Lie to all . Its Crutch not Cruth .
He sounds mightily pissed off. Or the journalist wants you to get that impression to ramp up a bit more intrigue.
from personal experience working with Italian institutions (Marconi Genoa) I believe they have extreme cultural difficulty when it comes to delivering any bad news. (you'll only discover you've been "lied" to at the very end when nothing can be done) I suspect Mr Crutchlow may be the unfortunate victim of this, but for what it's worth he might be thanking his lucky stars he's able to remain with Tech3.
Cal's Cal you will never change him, But in Motogp it's a different game, He needs to keep quiet and attract a big money sponsor and he will then get a factory bike! If i was him i would stay on the tech 3 for another 2 years then go back to wsb and join in the factory yamaha team when they enter the new R1.
Biggest lesson you can learn in life is to know when to say something and to know when to keep quiet, so that you get your own way. As I understand it, Cal wants to go racing on a Factory bike. To do that you have to play the game to get your own way.
We have massive companys in the UK who could sponsor Cal! but we have a obsession with feckin football!
The last BIG money rider we had was Sheene and Foggy close behind, Even Natwest bank helped fund Foggys factory ducati 916 in 1998/99
I've said it before: in the grand scheme of marketing budgets in major blue chip companies, sponsoring a MotoGP outfit is not that much. There are countless companies who could afford to sponsor a grid full of bikes, but bike racing is seen as noisy, dangerous, not green, and appealing to the wrong demographic (ie the proles). It is also considered niche. You only have to look at the money paid to golfers to see what companies can come up with for a "sport" that is innocuous, quiet, green and appeals overwhelmingly to those with deep pockets. To see how far you can go in sports sponsorship, look at Red Bull. They sponsor absolutely everything. And all paid for by an Austrian fizzy drink.
I suppose with the obvious attraction of a 'red/white' paint scheme, Coca Cola would be too bloody obvious for Ducati ......................... then get Pepsi to stump up for Hondas to return to Red/White/Blue livery and we might have something ..........
