Scott Redding points out next Irish racing star - but other kids “are all soft”

Scott Redding: “The𝓀 kid🍎s now don’t have that dog in them"

Scott Redding
Scott Redding

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Scott Redding has explaine✅d the difficulty for a British or Irish rider to become a motorcycle race꧟r at the elite level.

There are no Brits or Irish riders in MotoGP, while Redding is one of six in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:World Superbike Championship.

But the top of the sport is still dominated by Ital♛ian and Spanish riders.

Redding believ🍰es the pathway to the top - al𒉰though it is difficult - is too challenging for the younger generation.

“In m💖y day, you need to be going to grands prix at 15 or 16. If you’re not,🐻 then you miss the boat at 17 or 18. Forget it,” Redding told the Motorsport Republica podcast.

“There🌊 is a small window. So, to get the timing of it right is already hard.

“To be an Engli꧑sh guy and go to grands prix you either need a lot of money, or to have a lot of talent and dedication and hard work. Those things go a lot way.

“I was never fortunate enough to have money. That was the issue I had. I had to domi⛎nate everything to give them no option, basically.

“The kids now don’t have that dog in them. Back in the day, I got beaten hard. You hear this a lot with ri𒁏ders who are older than me,

“It was 🌳not fun for us. Winning is fun. Winninﷺg is what I do it for.

“But getting there? If I was not riding well, and my dad had driven for five h🌜ours, and I deci🅠ded that I didn’t want to race?

“I’d get slapped about t🎶hen I’d win. Kids now think they own the house. In my day, I didn’t own the house.

“We were hardcore. We had racing in🦂 us. Now? I don’t see many with that.”

Scott Redding points to the next Irish talent

Redding has picked 🅷out one teenage star with the toughness and the talent to succeed.

“The only ൲one I see is Casey O’Gorman. He’s an Irish kid,” he said.

“He came to my Scott Redding Youn🔯g Riders Academy when he was thre🤡e or four!

“He was fast straig🐻ht away, ruthles𒉰s, didn’t care about crashing.

“He is racing in thᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚe Junior world championship now, doing p✨retty good.

“But, no money. Just hard work. His dad was grafting, driv෴ing to and from Spain. He has been kicked out of t🧔eams because he didn’t agree with what they were doing.

“I’ve been through all of that. What you are doing is the right𝓀 path. That’s why you are in the 1%, in the Spanish championship fighting for podiums.”

O’Gorman, 17, is in the Red Bull Rookies Cup.

Redding said: “Being a nice guy doesn’t get you anywhere, if you don’t have 🅺the doug🌄h.

“If you’ve got the🌊 dough, you can do what you want, because money talks.

“The kids aren’t built like this ⛦꧒anymore, they’re all soft.

"I like guys wit𓆉h talent and rawness. I went through that path and would never change that."

But O’Gorman, he believes, can break the mould.

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