In the latest of his exclusive columns for Crash.net, 19-year-old 250cc Grand Prix rider Chaz Davies explains the controversial circumstances surrounding his departure from the Campetella team - and what his plans for the future now are...
Hello every body,
It’s been a while since I last 'checked in' but as you can probably imagine things have been a bit hectic - or not as the case may be! The last time I wrote I was living the high life and rolling with the minted boys in Monaco. I had an awesome week there, Casey (Stoner) and I trained by cycling everyday, racked up over 400k’s and went to the
F1.
The F1 was cool. It’s another world ey?! Money, money and more money. The hospitality's there definitely set the bar for
MotoGP (especially the huge
Red Bull one) and you can see that what goes on with hospitality's etc in that paddock, gets transferred over to ours as they get more fancy as the years go by. As for the F1 itself, well… we didn’t actually see any racing or practicing. We could hear it but saw nothing.
As it was Monaco it is very difficult too see any action because the paddock is a bit different to normal and very enclosed. It’s split into two areas, one for hospitality's, race truck offices etc and the other paddock where the pit garages are. The best bit about the F1 was that we got a tour of the Lucky Strike Honda teams pit and got a real insight into all the F1 technology and basically everything else that goes with it.
Casey and I got to try out Rubens Barrichello’s car for size which was waaay too small for me but fitted Case well. Everything is carbon fibre and I mean everything. Just the steering wheel alone is worth £40,000!! (unfortunately I couldn't fit it into any of my pockets, I can get 3 races out of £40,000!!!). We learnt a lot from our tour and it was a big eye opener. I knew that F1 had a lot of technology and money behind it but I didn’t expect it to be quite that much.
