MASTER LESSON: How to build trust.
Listening to those who know is, everywhere, the best recipe for growth and development, a rule I can say is especially valid for careers. That’s why whenever I can stop being Team Pons hospitality at the GP morning to have coffee with the “boss”. And there I listened to master classes in motorcycling for many years that helped me build the standard by which I follow, read, analyze and give my opinion about races. Those last lessons were given to me yesterday. It’s about how a driver’s confidence is formed. “It’s important not to fall, it’s important. It doesn’t matter if in the first GPs one finishes tenth or twelfth, today’s World Championship is very long. Because as you finish the races your confidence will grow and the results will be equally beautiful. Imagine an empty glass. Whenever a pilot finishes a race, he adds a little water to that glass. Once the water has reached the edge, you will have maximum self -confidence. Instead, whenever his confidence falls he shrinks; water flows from the glass. Pons ’mirror allegory is one hundred percent applicable to what’s going on in MotoGP, with a full Fabio Quartararo -2 just crashing into 10 GPs-, compared to a super-fast Pecco Bagnaia that combines top performance crashes -8 in the same 10 GGPP- that returns you to box 0 of trust … Master lesson by Sito Pons.
THE QUARTARARO TOLL: The price of fame.
In France, an athlete’s fame is directly related to the covers provided by L’Equipe, the country’s influential sports reference newspaper and one of the most influential in the world. This is the one that, for example, announces each year the Golden Ball that awards the best soccer player of the season, whose award is not lacking in the most famous soccer players, so jealous of their public appearances. Usually its covers are reserved for the sport of the ball, with the occasional display of tennis -Roland Garros-, cycling -Tour de France- or the second national sport, rugby. Well, Fabio Quartararo has opened up at the exclusive L’Equipe club. The final cover was given to him on June 20 after his victory at the Sachsenring, where he moved Mbappé and Verstappen to several boxes. This is the eighth time it has appeared on the front page, nothing. Quartararo is already a character in his country. Talking to him yesterday, he confessed to me that fame is already causing him harm in the form of lack of privacy. “I rarely go to France, because I live in Andorra, but when I visit my family, it’s hard for me to enjoy it as much as I want because I’m not just Fabio. This is what I like when I’m with them, but every time I go out on the street or go to lunch or dinner I can’t escape being Fabio Quartararo. And it’s not that it bothers me, but it makes me sad because when I go to France I would like to be alone for my family. ”… The price of fame, they call it.
THE HONDA CRISIS: Summer break will be decisive.
Alberto Puig assured the appearance of the six managers of the MotoGP teams that the way out of the crisis of the team for which he was responsible was passed “by changing methods and changing our way of thinking a bit. , “although he eventually could not explain what it was. specifically referred to. “Aero words” I call them. Much more accurate in his description of the situation was Takaaki Nakagami, the HRC’s reference driver in the absence of Marc Márquez. “We have problems, but no one knows what we need to change. The engine is good, the chassis and aerodynamics work for us as they should. All our rivals have improved, but we, on the other hand, haven’t taken a step forward since last winter, which means the difference between them is rising.So far it’s not very hard to finish in the top ten.We have problems getting in and out of the corner; we lack grip in the back .We were forced to pay by pulling the brake up to the top of the corners and then very easily falling from the front.Nakagami’s criticism was added to the other Honda riders.Almost all of them agreed, but in listening to them, a doubt strikes me: I say that they have some responsibility in the development of the motorcycle they describe today, or is it b a was designed by the engineers without considering their comments. account?
Source: La Verdad
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