Scott Redding's branding of the MotoGP Aprilia as a shit that can't be shined won't have burned any bridges with the Noale factory as that crossing was already a smouldering wreck anyhow. It did however, induce many team managers in WorldSBK and BSB to make that noise when you suck in loads of air through pursed lips. Redding was only saying what Sam Lowes wanted to 12 months previously and is a breath of fresh air, if you will, when compared to the usual PR bollocks that is trotted out. Only Valentino Rossi, and occasionally Cal Crutchlow and Aleix Espargaro, are able to get away with saying what they think. The rest are terrified what the old, white men who run motorcycle racing will do...
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