Paolo’s Blog

SACHSENRING GP 15/7/18

“Una domenica bestiale”. If I was able I would sing it to you.
It can be summarized in few words: Tatsuki’s crash after just few lapses and Antonelli swinging around the 20th position. That’s why after the race we disassembled the garage so quickly to be home as soon as possible. This situation reminded me Brno 2007, when the official RSA was given to Marco, but the only “official” things were the stickers on the livery. Marco crashed so many times during that weekend trying to give his best, even in the warm-up when a Japanese hit his bike and remember he stopped riding after that accident. The race began and Marco crashed again. He came back to the garage saying: “Dad, please, let’s leave as soon as possible”. This Sachsenring has the same taste of that one in 2007. There are always trips and races which aren’t positive, that was an example. But the following year Marco won the world championship so if you keep trying, you believe in it, and the fortune wheel turns, because sooner or later it has to turn, good results comes.
We thought this bad weekend was over but it wasn’t: Patacca’s father called me saying Matteo had crashed during the Rookies Cup race2.
Exposed fracture of the humerus and he needed immediately a surgery. He was taken in the Chemiz Clinic, where people were speaking just in German. I put myself in the shoes of Patacca’s father, in difficulty with the language, so I took my phone to call an old friend and ex teammate of Marco: Steve Jenkner, who run to the hospital and help fixing the situation with all his kindness. He saved us! The following morning they called me back; the surgery was over and succeeded perfectly.
I stopped for a while thinking about long-time friendship. Steve could have found thousands excuses; it was a long time we didn’t hear each other. That’s not what happened. He immediately got worried, he quitted everything he was doing to help us. There are friendships which can’t be broken neither by time or distance.
Then there was a call from Carmelo Ezpeleta, who found the time to worry about our little rider in between the thousands things he has to think about and to do. It pleasantly impressed me. That’s why i respect and appreciate this man!
Those were the only important things of the weekend, if I’ll talk further I will just bore you with usual technical problems and it’s not time to talk about it anymore. It’s yet half of season, we already gained enough informations, now it’s time to solve problems, to move forward, to open the gas, to go up steps, not airplanes ones with a luggage to go home dissatisfied, but podium ones with a bottle of champagne infinitely happy. It’s time for facts not excuses.

-PaoloSic58-