Carmelo Ezpeleta is CEO of Dornaa company that organizes a Motorcycle World Championship held under the MotoGP brand. Born in Barcelona, engineering student and five-time Spanish champion Jai Alai (basket tip), these days went through the microphones of ‘Zulaika’s Txik-Txak’.
In the conversation, Ezpeleta was asked if a Montesa Impala 250cc would fit in an elevator and in response he told a funny anecdote: “If you build it, yes. The elevator you speak of is still there,” he commented between laughs, ” My parents live there. It’s in Barcelona and my brother lives there. This Christmas I was there and realized how complicated it is, I remembered how I did it. I had to put it upright, which isn’t too difficult since you straighten the rear wheel and raise the front wheel. I put it on a wheel with steering wheels inside the elevatorthat’s harder.”
In his explanation, the CEO of MotoGP added that “one day I realized that I could not close the doors. They close from the inside and they have a kind of lock so that the elevator does not start until those buttons are pressed. . I was on the right motorcycle, with me in the back and my feet were on the two door locks so the elevator could start. It’s funny“.
His mother’s signature
Asked the reason why Ezpeleta brought the motorcycle to a second floorthe man from Barcelona said that “when I was little, my father took me to see some Formula 1 races held in Barcelona, career (…) When I was 18 years old, I gave private lessons. I got my license and, when I had the chance, I bought a motorcycle.. I saw one motorcycle in a shop window and I stopped to look at it; until the guy came out of the shop, who later became my best friend, and said to me: ‘Hey, why do you stop every day to look at the motorcycle?’. It’s a stock but improved motorcycle, with which he won the Catalan Hill Climb Championship last year. He told me it cost 25,000 pesetas and they sold it in installments. (…) I jumped into the pool. I gave him the 5,000 pesetas I had saved and with his earnings from teaching classes he paid 1,000 pesetas a month for the letter. of a motorcycle.”
“At that time, At 18 you are still a minor.. To sign letters, you must be of legal age or have parental consent. I told my father about the motorcycle, but he said no. because it is very dangerous. He won’t let me. I insisted and wanted to show him the motorcycle, thinking that when he saw it he would let me buy it. It’s not like that. The motorcycle was in my street and he didn’t stop to look at it. So I decided to take it home so my dad could do nothing but look at it.. I startedthinking he would prefer it to continue. It’s a two-stroke motorcycle and since it’s been lying around for quite some time, the oil mixes differently with the fuel and It started to smoke. I made a mess inside the hell of my house. My father was very angry, but found me very patient and serious He told me that he did not sign and that my mother made the decision. That’s what we did“.
Source: La Verdad
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