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Sete Gibernau: "I was always ahead"
Far from pointing fingers to his hasty retreat from MotoGP, the Spaniard believes the new experience has been largely positive.
El ex piloto catalán desveló sus sensaciones más sinceras mientras acaba un año en el que ha vivido de todo
Former Spaniard revealed their deepest feelings while just a year that has seen it all
Ignasi Sagnier
He hung the leather suit for good. This is what emerges from his words. His return to racing in 2009 with Ducati in the team of Francisco Hernando did not get the expected result, but far from complaining or pointing fingers Sete Gibernau removes all positive.
Just a 2009 really atypical.
Throughout. For many things. I thought that I would never run after retiring in 2006. Nieto family convinced me and Carmelo Ezpeleta but was very reluctant at first because I left convinced of what he did and never had the itch to return. In 2008 Ducati asked me to do some specific training to help and glad I did, but without the aim of gaining a new MotoGP. Back was not a challenge but knowing that captivated me was to lead a project and create a team from scratch was the trigger that made me take the plunge. Not just get on a motorcycle but by the challenge it was.
Did you think I could give a bonus?
A personal and professional level and throw filled me excited and convinced forward. It filled me even though we had just not the year. We created a team with face and eyes, something that was not easy, nor was getting on a bike. From the outside people can not see but the experience served me well. I grew up with that new situation but I did not like to end this way. But as I have done all my life, I'll take the good part. We were able to create something from scratch in a very difficult time and I will do.
So he was reluctant to run again?
It took convincing. It is said that second part never good and at no time during the two years I was out of the World, I thought back. It was all of a sudden. I'm impulsive and I like living in the present. I decided to move ahead and do it again if I had the chance. In my life I regret what I did.
But one thing is to return to the soccer fields and other up to a MotoGP bike more than 300 per hour.
This required me a lot personally because I have had for 22 years and suitable physical form. Helped me to see that I have the spirit of sacrifice needed. It would be foolish to say I liked how it compensated the project ended.
What was it like in the GP of Qatar?
When they told me to run again looked very far my pilot stage but when I put it on the grill Losail was as if I had never gone. I felt it was my world and I was fine. The feelings were positive.
How do you hosted the grill?
Okay. I am fortunate to have good friends in the world and I realized to see them again because I moved a lot after my retirement.
And just at its best when it's missing is the attachment with the brothers and Francisco Hernando Nieto, the Pocero.
A shame as we were about to pick fruit at the level of outcomes that have helped us to enjoy more. It was a joint decision. I was the first thing I said that to make the quantum leap needed to have things they had said earlier in the season and, for various reasons, were not as agreed to. I do not have to take 20 years to adapt to whatever. I think we could not lose the commitment and not continue as it had said was absurd. The best option, despite being so drastic, I took with my head high.
Who had told him?
Should not poke. It was something new and eventually had to close the project. It was more my decision not to continue in the right direction. We took our best, but what was not what was said.
And what was promised?
It was a long-term project where we could rest assured knowing that work the aim was to see what would happen beyond one year. At the end there was a series of guarantees that were not met but it's not about speaking ill of anything or anyone because they might be. I do not look guilty.
Are you a victim of the crisis?
I am grateful for what happened, with the opportunity you gave me paddock, the press and fans and that the final reward. He wished with all my heart and strive to be ahead was within my reach, but I got the honey on the lips.
What did it cost more?
The feeling of needing a learning process in electronics. I requested a series of information that the 1000 and by the time the pilot was not requested. The system of work has changed much in two years. He was accustomed to being sued by a number of things and when I had another direction because the pilot must provide different information.
Did you feel useful?
I felt useful and live sporting point. The problem of fracture of the clavicle in Le Mans we rectify it quickly but with a certain age see things differently.
What do you mean?
In life you jumping fences and at some point is that you feel that these are increasingly high, larger. You jump over and life is another, and prepares you to be able to jump either physically or mentally. Without noticing it you gain experience to jump higher and better. I am grateful for the opportunity and see this time fondly. I closed my return with the satisfaction of having given a hundred percent.
Although the completion of the project was not expected everyone in the team said he behaved like a "gentleman."
I've always tried to be honest and go ahead respecting everyone and I have only words of thanks. And will remain so in the end when you get positive show the same result.
Two runners-up in MotoGP. What memories are left?
With many moments of my career. Everyone. Highlight only one merit remove illusion and others who marked me. In particular at the level of sensations and feelings. As a pilot, a race that nobody remembers as the Montmelo in 1998 where I Suzuki room with the V2. There was no GP in which I was rewarded with a podium or a victory as the victory in Valencia in 2001, but sometimes life is like. People do not recognize an event, but not need it. With yours and yours that enough and I often repeat. More now that I've retired. With no constant recognition you feel you need something but you see that life is more than half a day without receiving compliments and you must learn to be as happy or more.
Do I have to adapt to the retreat?
I think the education I received I have tried to be aware that this moment had to arrive and is a process that you know how it is and do not expect it to arrive. I tried to live the present and when I could not enjoy the people around me helped me to do. The last two years outside the circuits have continued to be just as happy. Rewards are personal and not everyday that you are in the TV and when people recognize you. You have to work with young athletes who have daily rewards that are just and gaps not think you can be happy. And it is not. One must prepare for the day after his retirement.
How does the current grid?
Very complete but the end is Rossi who just ahead. Their presence is a magnet but has great drivers behind. Failure to return to 1000 and reduce the electronics to return the show that years ago could enjoy. The situation is not alarming because the sport goes in cycles and adapted but I'd like to see more show.
What did you think Lorenzo?
She has matured a lot and does have the responsibility to win in 2010 but the good thing is that it has weapons and should concentrate on going fast. 2010 will not be easy because it is going to require long and must be concentrated and isolated from everything that surrounds him. You should not think the moment that he knows that has a motorcycle champion and every effort should be focused on going fast.
You suffered the wiles of Rossi. What is there to warn George?
Do not know. It's difficult. Each lives its own life. George is on the same computer with the same bike, circumstances are different because I was from another and not to me to give advice. Jorge has the maturity to know what to do at all times.
And Dani Pedrosa?
It is in the best team in the world with the Yamaha. She has the talent to win the World Cup but must be won with the set-up that is one of the strongest factors Valentino. Rossi has a team that can offer what you need to win because he knows what it takes to win. He said the team and this gives it. Rossi has a binomial winner. Dani should know what to ask because your team is winning. That is what should fit: Dani and Honda knows what it needs to.
So many electronics makes this sport a little easier?
It is unfair to say that it's easier or harder. That is not valuable. At the end wins the best and what is true is now asked other information, say that the pilot must have another type of profile. The 500 was far more specific and technical characteristics of the bike require that the pilot did not have to adapt. It is the category that fits every rider.
The veterans say they would like to see less electronics.
It is a less punitive category. When I saw 250 former pilots who gave throttle to the MotoGP class while they were inclined. With the 1000 or the 500 was impossible. I would personally rather see something more like the pre-pilot and I think it is more rewarding.
Understands "no" by Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa Ducati.
Jorge is in the best position to which you can aspire. Next to Rossi, the best team and is the only one on today that is capable of pairing work. Lawrence has done the right thing while Dani is difficult to get out of HRC. Honda should be able to have an engine that can win. In Ducati all the electronics is so great that the perpetrators of this paragraph hold the key to winning and the team of Stoner is very good. The electronics on the Ducati is what makes it or not winning.
Will watching the races?
They are my life and live, but I also want to disconnect a bit like returning. Maybe back in another way. Although not present in the paddock I think I gave it everything and I feel it is my place. Now I'm back but in a happy future.
Does it look at Dorna and with a team?
I still feel I do not know half pilot. Maybe never again be related to MotoGP but I will be open to a project that excites me and that I myself believe me because then I can transmit values.
What advice would you give to Ezpeleta?
I have a meeting yet and I want to see because we have a good relationship. There are things he has done much to thank for this and I want to give my views on current world view. Their decisions are being correct.
And after the races, what?
I am happy. I projects. Luckily I have lived to enjoy almost everything. I could work on something that I liked and now I still go to the gym, I got things I could not do before because of my schedule and I am motivated to create new projects, spend hours in front of a computer, writing, consulting ...
What music would make your career?
In different styles but positive. Show my mood. I went through good and bad moments but I was always transparent.
Do you think Rossi is afraid to go to Ducati?
Valentino is not afraid to sign anything and must believe in the project. We showed everyone that always takes the right decision in the most delicate moments.
Far from pointing fingers to his hasty retreat from MotoGP, the Spaniard believes the new experience has been largely positive.
El ex piloto catalán desveló sus sensaciones más sinceras mientras acaba un año en el que ha vivido de todo
Former Spaniard revealed their deepest feelings while just a year that has seen it all
Ignasi Sagnier
He hung the leather suit for good. This is what emerges from his words. His return to racing in 2009 with Ducati in the team of Francisco Hernando did not get the expected result, but far from complaining or pointing fingers Sete Gibernau removes all positive.
Just a 2009 really atypical.
Throughout. For many things. I thought that I would never run after retiring in 2006. Nieto family convinced me and Carmelo Ezpeleta but was very reluctant at first because I left convinced of what he did and never had the itch to return. In 2008 Ducati asked me to do some specific training to help and glad I did, but without the aim of gaining a new MotoGP. Back was not a challenge but knowing that captivated me was to lead a project and create a team from scratch was the trigger that made me take the plunge. Not just get on a motorcycle but by the challenge it was.
Did you think I could give a bonus?
A personal and professional level and throw filled me excited and convinced forward. It filled me even though we had just not the year. We created a team with face and eyes, something that was not easy, nor was getting on a bike. From the outside people can not see but the experience served me well. I grew up with that new situation but I did not like to end this way. But as I have done all my life, I'll take the good part. We were able to create something from scratch in a very difficult time and I will do.
So he was reluctant to run again?
It took convincing. It is said that second part never good and at no time during the two years I was out of the World, I thought back. It was all of a sudden. I'm impulsive and I like living in the present. I decided to move ahead and do it again if I had the chance. In my life I regret what I did.
But one thing is to return to the soccer fields and other up to a MotoGP bike more than 300 per hour.
This required me a lot personally because I have had for 22 years and suitable physical form. Helped me to see that I have the spirit of sacrifice needed. It would be foolish to say I liked how it compensated the project ended.
What was it like in the GP of Qatar?
When they told me to run again looked very far my pilot stage but when I put it on the grill Losail was as if I had never gone. I felt it was my world and I was fine. The feelings were positive.
How do you hosted the grill?
Okay. I am fortunate to have good friends in the world and I realized to see them again because I moved a lot after my retirement.
And just at its best when it's missing is the attachment with the brothers and Francisco Hernando Nieto, the Pocero.
A shame as we were about to pick fruit at the level of outcomes that have helped us to enjoy more. It was a joint decision. I was the first thing I said that to make the quantum leap needed to have things they had said earlier in the season and, for various reasons, were not as agreed to. I do not have to take 20 years to adapt to whatever. I think we could not lose the commitment and not continue as it had said was absurd. The best option, despite being so drastic, I took with my head high.
Who had told him?
Should not poke. It was something new and eventually had to close the project. It was more my decision not to continue in the right direction. We took our best, but what was not what was said.
And what was promised?
It was a long-term project where we could rest assured knowing that work the aim was to see what would happen beyond one year. At the end there was a series of guarantees that were not met but it's not about speaking ill of anything or anyone because they might be. I do not look guilty.
Are you a victim of the crisis?
I am grateful for what happened, with the opportunity you gave me paddock, the press and fans and that the final reward. He wished with all my heart and strive to be ahead was within my reach, but I got the honey on the lips.
What did it cost more?
The feeling of needing a learning process in electronics. I requested a series of information that the 1000 and by the time the pilot was not requested. The system of work has changed much in two years. He was accustomed to being sued by a number of things and when I had another direction because the pilot must provide different information.
Did you feel useful?
I felt useful and live sporting point. The problem of fracture of the clavicle in Le Mans we rectify it quickly but with a certain age see things differently.
What do you mean?
In life you jumping fences and at some point is that you feel that these are increasingly high, larger. You jump over and life is another, and prepares you to be able to jump either physically or mentally. Without noticing it you gain experience to jump higher and better. I am grateful for the opportunity and see this time fondly. I closed my return with the satisfaction of having given a hundred percent.
Although the completion of the project was not expected everyone in the team said he behaved like a "gentleman."
I've always tried to be honest and go ahead respecting everyone and I have only words of thanks. And will remain so in the end when you get positive show the same result.
Two runners-up in MotoGP. What memories are left?
With many moments of my career. Everyone. Highlight only one merit remove illusion and others who marked me. In particular at the level of sensations and feelings. As a pilot, a race that nobody remembers as the Montmelo in 1998 where I Suzuki room with the V2. There was no GP in which I was rewarded with a podium or a victory as the victory in Valencia in 2001, but sometimes life is like. People do not recognize an event, but not need it. With yours and yours that enough and I often repeat. More now that I've retired. With no constant recognition you feel you need something but you see that life is more than half a day without receiving compliments and you must learn to be as happy or more.
Do I have to adapt to the retreat?
I think the education I received I have tried to be aware that this moment had to arrive and is a process that you know how it is and do not expect it to arrive. I tried to live the present and when I could not enjoy the people around me helped me to do. The last two years outside the circuits have continued to be just as happy. Rewards are personal and not everyday that you are in the TV and when people recognize you. You have to work with young athletes who have daily rewards that are just and gaps not think you can be happy. And it is not. One must prepare for the day after his retirement.
How does the current grid?
Very complete but the end is Rossi who just ahead. Their presence is a magnet but has great drivers behind. Failure to return to 1000 and reduce the electronics to return the show that years ago could enjoy. The situation is not alarming because the sport goes in cycles and adapted but I'd like to see more show.
What did you think Lorenzo?
She has matured a lot and does have the responsibility to win in 2010 but the good thing is that it has weapons and should concentrate on going fast. 2010 will not be easy because it is going to require long and must be concentrated and isolated from everything that surrounds him. You should not think the moment that he knows that has a motorcycle champion and every effort should be focused on going fast.
You suffered the wiles of Rossi. What is there to warn George?
Do not know. It's difficult. Each lives its own life. George is on the same computer with the same bike, circumstances are different because I was from another and not to me to give advice. Jorge has the maturity to know what to do at all times.
And Dani Pedrosa?
It is in the best team in the world with the Yamaha. She has the talent to win the World Cup but must be won with the set-up that is one of the strongest factors Valentino. Rossi has a team that can offer what you need to win because he knows what it takes to win. He said the team and this gives it. Rossi has a binomial winner. Dani should know what to ask because your team is winning. That is what should fit: Dani and Honda knows what it needs to.
So many electronics makes this sport a little easier?
It is unfair to say that it's easier or harder. That is not valuable. At the end wins the best and what is true is now asked other information, say that the pilot must have another type of profile. The 500 was far more specific and technical characteristics of the bike require that the pilot did not have to adapt. It is the category that fits every rider.
The veterans say they would like to see less electronics.
It is a less punitive category. When I saw 250 former pilots who gave throttle to the MotoGP class while they were inclined. With the 1000 or the 500 was impossible. I would personally rather see something more like the pre-pilot and I think it is more rewarding.
Understands "no" by Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa Ducati.
Jorge is in the best position to which you can aspire. Next to Rossi, the best team and is the only one on today that is capable of pairing work. Lawrence has done the right thing while Dani is difficult to get out of HRC. Honda should be able to have an engine that can win. In Ducati all the electronics is so great that the perpetrators of this paragraph hold the key to winning and the team of Stoner is very good. The electronics on the Ducati is what makes it or not winning.
Will watching the races?
They are my life and live, but I also want to disconnect a bit like returning. Maybe back in another way. Although not present in the paddock I think I gave it everything and I feel it is my place. Now I'm back but in a happy future.
Does it look at Dorna and with a team?
I still feel I do not know half pilot. Maybe never again be related to MotoGP but I will be open to a project that excites me and that I myself believe me because then I can transmit values.
What advice would you give to Ezpeleta?
I have a meeting yet and I want to see because we have a good relationship. There are things he has done much to thank for this and I want to give my views on current world view. Their decisions are being correct.
And after the races, what?
I am happy. I projects. Luckily I have lived to enjoy almost everything. I could work on something that I liked and now I still go to the gym, I got things I could not do before because of my schedule and I am motivated to create new projects, spend hours in front of a computer, writing, consulting ...
What music would make your career?
In different styles but positive. Show my mood. I went through good and bad moments but I was always transparent.
Do you think Rossi is afraid to go to Ducati?
Valentino is not afraid to sign anything and must believe in the project. We showed everyone that always takes the right decision in the most delicate moments.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (J708 @ Dec 27 2009, 11:37 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>did you just translate that mofo?
Looks like a google translate to me. Terrible to read but just about understandable.
Looks like a google translate to me. Terrible to read but just about understandable.
It was actually exceedingly eloquent to read in Spanish. He is a very educated man, apparently he speaks about Italian, Spanish, Catalan, German, English and French.
He's a class act, undoubtedly.
He's a class act, undoubtedly.
"George is on the same computer with the same bike". I don't think I have heard it said that way but really, it is true in a way.
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Rovrum S,Yorks Eng
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (J708 @ Dec 27 2009, 11:37 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>did you just translate that mofo?
its a google translate
its a google translate
