Nell’evento per il decennale della vittoria Mondiale di Carlos Checa e Althea su Ducati a Moto dei Miti, il mega museo storico ed emozionale creato da Genesio Bevilacqua, come presentatore dell’evento non ho potuto fare il Misterhelmet e fare le domande “giuste”. Non ce n’è stato bisogno.
I sassolini dalla scarpa sono saltati fuori con aneddoti, storie e racconti, oltre a dichiarazioni che ci hanno spiegato come ha fatto una squadra privata che è diventata ufficiale l’anno dopo aver vinto, a portare a casa un mondiale che dopo dieci anni Ducati non è ancora riustita a ripetere. E soprattutto come ha fatto Carlos Checa che in carriera non aveva mai vinto un mondiale e che in partenza i book makers davano 51:1, a battere Max Biaggi e Marco Melandri, che invece erano le Superstars predestinate del campionato delle derivate di serie. Il tutto con una struttura privata di un team che quell’anno si era pagato una moto in cui Ducati aveva detto esplicitamente di non credere, dato che pensava ad altro.
In the end Carlos Checa is always a gentleman but that doesn't mean that he doesn't feel like saying things.
"Ducati didn't believe in this bike and left us alone, but we won anyway. Maybe I could have won that world championship even a year earlier in the factory team, if they had believed in it, but that's okay too."
It is an awareness that has matured over time, that of the only Spaniard to have won a Superbike world championship, who must have understood how things were turning after watching them cold and from a distance, also helped by the events that followed.
He is an analyst, "El toro." And from him come a couple of boulders on Ducati and World Superbike.
In the interview you will find the answers to the questions:
How come Superbike is in decline?
What are the culprits?
Who are Jonathan Rea 's heirs and how come the nord Irishman killed Superbike?
Who is the right factory rider for Ducati MotoGP?
What should be done to solve Ducati's problems?
But if you think Carlos is the rider who lends himself to controversy and gets manipulated just because it is easy to get flattered and carried away on his party day, you are wrong.
The recipe for Ducati, he has it: a good one has to try it but ... not him. In short, totally out of sync with the scattershot shooters that are so handy for today's click-catchers.
Perhaps that is why Carlos Checa is old school, in a good way, and it is also why perhaps, in a world that has forgotten the real things, he and his team were the last to win in a certain way.
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