The taste of sucess. 8/20/2006
Loris Capirossi wins it for Ducati in Brno. Second win for the 2006 season for Ducati. Loris won it in 43′ 40″ 145, some 4.9 seconds ahead of the second place finisher, Valentino Rossi. He also set a new lap record for fastest lap along the way, clocking 1′ 58″ 157, eclipsing the previous lap record set by Rossi in 2005.
A great effort from Loris Capirossi, and even more hard work by the man in the center in the photograph above, Livio Suppo. I’ve had the privilege of hoisting beers with Livio, and I found him to be a very serious, focused man. Who also has a bit of a sense of humour, though he doesn’t show it much. The pressure on him as the man in charge of the Marlboro Ducati Corse MotoGP team is immense.
Many of us think we face pressure everyday in our daily life. We probably do. But in Livio’s case, his performance measurement is immediate. The clock does not lie. The motorcycle, the rider, the team, everything under his charge has to mesh, and work perfectly, every single time. I’ve had, on occassion, run privateer teams in motorcycle racing. Very amateur type stuff, on a very basic level. And even then, the pressure on me to manage the team, was great. A thousand and one things that you have to think about, and consider.
No doubt Livio has an entire support staff under him, as well as the resources of an entire factory standing behind, but the ultimate responsibility for success, or failure, of the team, is his, and his alone.
All pictures courtesy of Ducati Corse Press website.
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- Author : thesnark
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