beansbaxter
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posted November 06, 2005 07:11 PM
Gibernau going to Ducati in 2006
Sete was seriously stressed out this season - maybe the Marlboros will chill him out...
Sete Gibernau joins the Ducati Marlboro Team
News, 06/11/05
The Ducati Marlboro Team has reached agreement with Sete Gibernau to contest the 2006 MotoGP World Championship. The Spanish rider will join Loris Capirossi, who renewed his contract with the squad before September's Japanese GP.
Gibernau is optimistic about his future, trusting in the Ducati/Bridgestone partnership that has already given great joy to Ducati fans with some amazing results, including Capirossi's fantastic victories at the recent Japanese and Malaysian GPs.
'After achieving some great results and much satisfaction during the last few years, and after a season at the highest level but with some difficulties, I decided to make a change in my career´, said Gibernau.
'First of all I want to thank the people who helped me achieve so many good results. But now it's time to find some new motivation. The professionalism and enthusiasm I've found at Ducati are what made me decide to join forces with the factory. I face this new challenge with real determination, convinced that together we can achieve great success. In recent years Ducati has shown that it has big ambitions and huge potential. I trust that, with my experience, I can make a real contribution to turn our shared dreams into reality´.
'I'm delighted to welcome Sete´, said Federico Minoli, president of Ducati Motor Holding. 'We think Sete is one of the strongest guys in MotoGP. He's a talented, gritty and courageous rider. Sete has had a difficult season this year but he has shown throughout that he never gives up, in the best Ducati spirit. For this reason we're very proud to have him in our 2006 line-up alongside Loris. They are both very strong riders and we'll do everything we can to give them what they need to obtain the best possible results´.
Gibernau replaces Carlos Checa, who completed his time with the Ducati Marlboro Team in today's Valencia GP.
'It's always difficult to welcome someone while saying goodbye to someone else,´ continued Minoli. 'I want to sincerely thank Carlos for the commitment and professionalism he's shown us. For sure he's a great rider and also a nice guy; working with him has been a great pleasure´.
   
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trenace
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posted November 06, 2005 09:22 PM
 Edited By: trenace on 6 Nov 2005 22:24
If I ran the Ducati team I'd give Gibernau strict orders to NOT lead races prior to say 3 laps to go. Second fine, but front-running, prohibited till that point.
I'd also consider a contract clause with a $100,000-per-incident penalty for single-rider crashes not due to mechanical fault and a really fat bonus for going the entire season without. And a salary structure that relied a lot on bonuses for podium'ing and not much extra bonus for winning than for finishing second.
Plus, pay for all the counseling needed with a sports psychologist.
If he just goes on the same way with the same mentality (unaffected by differing incentives and disincentives) as last year, there's no reason to expect a different outcome, other than a worse outcome from being on probably not quite as good a bike.
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beansbaxter
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posted November 06, 2005 10:52 PM
Just goes to show that when your heads messed up it's hard to maintain focus. Sete proved he can pull the fastest laps with his bmw award, but he lost the battle in his mind basically every race.
I also agree that a major incentive structure based on podiums etc may force him to get his head together, but then again it may be the cause of further unravelling.
Then again I assume catering to a supermodel girlfriend has quite a high mental price as well
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trenace
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posted November 06, 2005 11:57 PM
Edited By: trenace on 6 Nov 2005 23:58
Quite possibly!
Actually the change of incentives I was suggesting wasn't towards pushing him harder but rather LESS hard.. to find big reward in finishing 2nd or 3rd.
My amateur psychoanalysis is that he has a cognitive dissonance with losing to Rossi or whoever else. If he doesn't win, he's a loser, he's got to win and boy he's going to prove everyone wrong this time. So he bins it.
Conceivably if he had incentives where a pile of podium finishes by season's end seems an extremely attractive prospect indeed, whereas stupid crashes seems like a really shitty thing, a lot of those shitty races where he either DNF's from stupidly binning it or finishes well back due to having run off the track, could be converted to podiums and even some wins. He does have the riding ability, but the wrong psychology.
Of course, if the supermodel girlfriend has him determined to "win it or bin it" for that reason then there's no helping the fool.
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