Pour en revenir au sujet de départ (parce que franchement, l’éternel retour de la vengeance de SuperMoi, on s’en bat les yeuk), les "observations" de Matthes, généralement pas le plus mal informé…
" Well, we still don’t really know for sure what happened, as no one is officially going on the record, but Millsaps himself went to Santa Clara to talk to some teams and see about getting a ride. From what I’ve been able to gather up, there was a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) illegal drug found in Davi’s locker in the Kawasaki semi-truck, and Kawasaki, while not accusing Davi of actually using this substance, said that just having it in their truck could cause issues by carrying the substance across state lines, and if they were ever searched by police, there could be legal ramifications for the team. Again, from what I hear—and it’s not proven—Davi said he had a prescription for this substance, but couldn’t provide any proof. Kawasaki felt like they had no choice but to let him go, and the reason the press release said “terminated” was because Davi wouldn’t agree to sign anything that said both sides mutually agreed to separate, which means the #18 is probably thinking about proceeding with legal action against Kawasaki.
Look, this isn’t about not wanting to pay Davi, and my people insist that Kawasaki didn’t do this because of Millsaps’ results. Davi hadn’t been doing that bad this year. He missed all of last year and hasn’t been great this year, but a team like Kawasaki wouldn’t just pull the trigger on this if they hadn’t really felt like they had to. This is obviously bad…real bad for them. It leaves them completely riderless for the last three races of the championship! If it was some B team in the pits and they did this, then whatever, I would get that some people would have raised eyebrows, but factory teams just don’t fire riders unless extreme circumstances have happened.
You can read Davi’s statement HERE, where he says he hasn’t violated any AMA/FIM rule or regulation. But he doesn’t say he didn’t violate any Kawasaki’s rules, which include many clauses, and I’m certain one of them is not leaving Kawasaki open to prosecution for anything that your actions may do.
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So, yeah, it’s a big deal, and I hope Davi takes this incident as a wake-up call and reevaluates the people around him and what they’re giving him. As a rider, it’s stated many, many times that what you put in your body is your responsibility, and clearly someone has betrayed him by giving him this…stuff, which, again, was bad enough that Kawasaki felt they had to fire him for it, and it was justified by their lawyers to fire him for it. Did Davi ask for this substance? Was he told it was WADA illegal? We’ll probably never know, but I’m guessing he now wishes he had thought about this some more. Davi may never, ever get a ride like this again (he’s ridden for most of the factory teams in the pits), and he has his “crew” to blame for giving him this or suggesting he take it.
There’s a chance that he never knew anything was wrong with this substance (again, though, he’s responsible for his body) and someone really effed him over. Let this be a lesson to the riders out there: Be careful who you surround yourself with, because when you go down, they’ll most likely just move onto the next guy and you’ll be without a job. "
, le il y a 11 années et 3 mois.
