11was to push the visibility of Team SUZUKI ECSTAR across media, in 2016 we had to change the role and dedicated ourselves to create more quality than quantity in our content. Then, Maverick’s first podium at Le Mans - and the first Victory at Silverstone - finally set us as top contenders in every race; meaning a strong change of perception of our Team in the global media’s opinion. This meant also a big increase in the requests for interviews, thus making the riders and Davide Brivio’s agenda more complicated to manage. The main task was still to provide the deserved attention and space to all media, but also to keep the average quality of the content at the top.”What is your own ‘High’ of the season - and why?“It’s easy to say, in only three words: ‘Winning is Addictive!’ When I started the MotoGP project in 2015 I was used to competition, even the strongest one, but haven’t lived a real victory before. I didn’t even know what to expect in case of a victory, I tried to learn from my team-mates, and especially from my Team Manager Davide Brivio, who were all a lot more ‘experienced’ than me in terms of podiums, but honestly, it’s not even comparable to the emotion of the victory when you live it. You will see long-experienced people cry and hear their broken voice, you’ll see a young man on the top of the podium with a light in his eyes that is not comparable with any other brightness, you will see strong men jump and laugh and hug just like they were kids on Christmas morning. For me, as a Press Officer, the work starts when the race ends: Interviews with TV, press conferences, press releases, pictures… I’d say I couldn’t have time to realise what was happening for real.And then it comes the Monday after, when I got back home and got the press review of International media coverage, when I got calls from everywhere in the world to ask for interviews or even to simply give me congratulations to report to the Team, is when I realised that that was for real; that Maverick got the Suzuki on the top of the MotoGP podium. Team Suzuki in these two years has become a real family, we all feel as a family. Also with the people at the Suzuki Factory in Japan, and all our network, it was living a victory in a Family as it is a victory of all the people with whom you speak with every day, with whom you share 18 races in a year and spend days, weeks, months all around the world. And then the first victory changes your perspective, it gives you a new hunger. A kind of hunger you don’t know until you taste it for the first time. If last year a sixth place was a success, after the first victory you really feel you can do it and you can’t wait to live again that adrenaline, that emotion, that excitement. You can’t wait to be able to climb the pit wall again at the chequered flag and scream happiness to the rider while he crosses the line.” You’ve worked with both riders. How was Maverick to work with? How was Aleix to work with? “I can’t say if one is better of the other, because both Aleix and Maverick are excellent people and to me it would be like to choose the best of my two ‘sons’ if I had to pick my favourite. For sure they are very different; and, they have changed a lot in these two years. Unfortunately, Aleix went through a difficult season in 2016, as he struggled to find effectiveness with the machine and incurred some crashes. Despite this hard situation, he proved to be a solid and reliable rider, deserving his role of factory rider. He kept on, never gave up; and helped the engineers to develop the machine. To me he was a perfect example of reliability, consistency and strength. Maverick impressed me – and many others in the team – when he arrived in Sepang for the first test of 2016. It was clear that he was not the rookie any longer and he introduced himself as strongly motivated and fit. He was in perfect shape, but also his mentality increased a huge amount during winter. It was already clear that with a competitive bike he would achieve the desired results in the season. This was impressive to me; at only 21 years old he was already a grown-up rider and man. This had implications also in his work with media as his attitude became stronger, wiser and he was more focused.”
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