Difficult career
Second place in the 2013 Moto2 World Championship, with three races won and seven total podiums, a BSB title won in 2019 and second place in the final standings of the 2020 Superbike World Championship. These were the most important results achieved in his career by Scott Redding, a talent of genius and above all unruliness who hung around the World Championship between 2008 and 2018, also racing for five seasons in MotoGP and achieving two podiums in the premier class.
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Today the former British motorcycling child prodigy is 33 years old and still competes in British Superbike, “to have fun“, he says. In the meantime, however, Redding has not lost the habit of saying what he thinks without filters and has decided to attack Spanish motorcycling head-on. In a recent interview given to the podcast Full Chat Redding has in fact hinted at the existence of a sort of Iberian ‘dome’ that would favor Spanish riders, allowing them, for example, to find contracts that would be precluded to riders of other nationalities in the same conditions.
The attack on Rins
“I was one of the five Britons who made it to MotoGP, got on the podium and fought for the Moto2 title, but people don’t understand the pressure you have to endure. I suffered mentally for ten years. I’m proud of what I’ve done – Redding stated, looking back on his career – now I’m having fun and I don’t care if I finish first or fifth. I’ve raced against the best in MotoGP and I don’t have to prove anything to anyone, I do it for myself”.
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Then came the attack on Rins and the Spanish ‘clan’: “[In MotoGP] they are all great riders. I don’t want to take anything away from them, but there are some guys like Alex Rins, who races on a factory Yamaha and has been doing so for a couple of years, for whom you ask yourself ‘why?‘. He is a good rider, but he has had many injuries and is not consistent. He shouldn’t be part of the championship, but he is Spanish – Redding commented with malice – there could be some small connection that helps. Being British doesn’t make things easier and the fact that there isn’t a single British rider in MotoGP is absolutely crazy”.
