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Go&Fun Honda’s Scott Redding is impressing many in his rookie season of MotoGP on the Open class Honda, but the Brit said today at the press conference held in advance of Sunday’s San Marino Grand Prix that it’s been anything but easy.
When asked what was the biggest surprise with the move up to MotoGP from Moto2, Redding said it was all about finding the limit.
“It’s just finding the limit,” the 21-year-old Redding said. “There’s no limit. I’m always more, more, more – just trying to build up and I’m still not there. I’m just trying to find the ultimate limit and it’s surprising because you never know where you are and it’s just learning the tire, the brake… you think you’re one minute there and then the other guys catch you and then you have to go more. For the moment, I’m just trying to keep a gap to the Open Hondas.”
As for the future, Redding said today that it was still to early to tell, though he’s rumored to be on the verge of getting a factory Honda for 2015, though he’s waiting to hear if his team owner Fausto Gresini will stick with Hondas or make the rumored move to Aprilia. There’s also reportedly an offer to move to Ducati.
“It would be nice to get the bike [a factory Honda] underneath me and to fight with these guys [Marc Marquez, Jorge Lorenzo, Valentino Rossi and Andrea Dovizioso, who were seated to the right of Redding at the press conference] would be interesting. We need to see for the moment because there is a lot of talking and I just need the right decision for my future. I’m young and trying to build up my career so it’s a big decision for me at the moment. We’ll see for me in the next few weeks what is the answer.”
For this weekend, Redding is hoping that the Misano World Circuit suits his Honda. The Brit is currently 12th in the MotoGP World Championship with 51 points with his best result a seventh in the very first round in Qatar. Last year Redding finished second in the Moto2 World Championship with three victories
“In Silverstone I thought it was going to be really bad for us, but actually it was quite good so maybe here with the bottom power we might lose something but with the lot of change of direction with the soft tire we have an advantage,” Redding said. “We will see tomorrow because it’s a new circuit for me with MotoGP. We just need to go out and do our best and see what we can do.”
When asked where he’d like to be in his career in two or three years, Redding was to the point.
“With this guy there with the orange [Repsol Honda]… right beside him,” he said while looking down at Marquez. “That’s it.”
