Honda may have announced that their going to field a three rider factory team, but it looks like Andrea Dovizioso has already drawn the short straw in the deal.
The Italian rider was informed Monday morning that a big part of his pit crew, techs and mechanics, are being switched over to Casey Stoner’s side of the garage and that he’ll be getting others.
By now everyone knows how essential it is for a rider to work with a tightly knit crew and the importance that they put in them.
They’ve become so fundamental, that they even take them when they switch teams as Valentino Rossi, Ben Spies and now Casey Stoner have done.
So why is Honda changing Dovizioso’s pit crew and informing him the day before the tests kick off, when they had told him if he went to a satellite team he would have kept all his crew? If we were malicious, we’d think that Honda is playing mean with Dovizioso for putting up such a stink and adamantly refusing to be shuffled off to Gresini, wanting to stay in the factory team.