Scott Redding of the GO&FUN Honda Gresini team was the only English rider in the British Grand Prix, who was able to finish the race among the top ten riders. The runner up of the 2013 Moto2 class managed to secure the 10th position at the Silverstone on August 31, Sunday which enabled him to earn valuable points for his team. Thus far Redding has a good 2014 MotoGP season as he remained the best classified Open Honda RCV1000R racer on several occasions. Since Scott was promoted to the premier class race category for the current campaign. In spite of it, it is still not clear whether the British rider will be able to have the factory Honda RC213V bike for next season.
Answering this question, Scott’s personal manager and the Team Principal of the Marc VDS Racing Team, Michael Bartholemy said that there is still a slight chance that the Englishman may get the factory Honda bike for next year. However, there are few things that needs to be finalized before Scott gets new bike for next season, as Bartholemy explained that on July 31st they receive the confirmation from both Honda and Gresini about the factory bike that put them in a position which they always wanted to be. Bartholemy said that this is why they had signed with Gresini Honda so they were quite pleased.
However, after a few days Fausto of Gresini told them that due to some financial issues in next season he is not sure whether he will be able to afford a new factory Honda bike or not, said Michael. The personal manager of Redding said that after this revelation the problem started a little bit. At that point in time, (Livio) Suppo, HRC and (Shuhei) Nakamoto assured them that Scott will get the new factory Honda bike during next year, but they have yet to decide where this machine will actually run, said Bartholemy.
Adding to it the Team Principal said that he believe that they are in talks with Aspar and Lucio Cecchinello of LCR Honda MotoGP, also they had made an offer to them as well. So for slightly over a week time we have an offer for the bike, said Bartholemy. Answering the question about the possible outcome of the talks and whether there is chance that Marc VDS Racing Team will move into the premier class and reunite with Scott to provide finance for his Honda RC213V bike, Bartholemy said that he have no clue what is the situation with Aspar and Lucio.
However, after they got this offer from HRC he met with Marc van der Straten of Marc VDS Racing Team and he wanted to help Scott, but he does not want to cover it entirely, said Bartholemy. Still he was extremely grateful to Marc as Bartholemy said that the help Straten has offered them for the next three years on such a short notice was really commendable because no other person would have done that for them, so hats off to him. Nevertheless, they do not have everything to have the bike during next season, said Michael.
The personal manger of Redding also revealed on this occasion that besides this there are two factories that are keen to get Scott on their machine for next two years. In addition, they also have another team that is interested in acquiring their services for 2016, but for next year they would have to adjust him in another team, said Michael. He also said that though these things are happening little late but Redding is still in demand and lot of people are interested in having him. So now they just have to see what Honda will bring to the table, said Bartholemy.
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