Tom Booth-Amos kicked by his mechanic - CIP: “Violence not acceptable"
The following video, filmed at the 2019 Buriram round, surfaced on social media durin🍷g this weekend's Thailan💦d MotoGP, with Booth-Amos later confirming the incident (see below).
Next time our rider says its the bike not him!!
— Steve Brogan (@steve17brogan)
Regarding the video thats gone around today. Im happy to be out that place, 𒈔thats just one of the things that happened in 2019.
— Tom Booth-Amos (@TomBoothAmos)
Six time World Superbike champion ౠJonathan Rea was one of many to condemn the video:
Nobody should ever have to sit on that kind of behaviour. Makes me so mad wa⛦tching this, especially as the team just turned the page
— Jonathan Rea (@jonathanrea)
Booth-Amos said:ꦫ “The video that has appeared is from the 2019 Thai Grand Prix. There were a lot of issues with the team that year that were never🃏 spoken about and I kept quiet just to try and keep my ride for the 2020 season as it was my dream to stay in that paddock.
“This happened after the race when my bik☂e broke down due to a mechanic’s error, I was asked to not say anything𒈔 and I kept quiet.
“I never told anyone including Dorna or my management a🎃t the time.
“That’s just one thing that happened that year, pe𒆙ople don’t know what goes on behind the TV screen.”
That prompted CIP to issue the following statement on Saturday: “About the video🍌 from 2019, on behalf of the team, we strongly denounce this kind of behaviour, and we want to publicly apologise to Tom Booth-Amos.
“A team is not tღhe effort of on♉e person but of a whole group of people.
“That’s why the te🙈chnician is no longer involved in our tℱeam.
“Violence of any kind is not acceptable in our sport and💙 beyond.
“We have taken all the necessaಞry measures to ensure that it does not happen again in the future.”
The ✃team member is still in the grand prix padd🦋ock, working for a different team.
Booth-Amos left grand prix at the end of 2019 and now competes in the World Supersport s🃏er🐻ies.
