Tom Booth-Amos kicked by his mechanic - CIP: “Violence not acceptable"
The following video, filmed at the 2019 Buriram round, surfaced on soc🐼ial media during this weekend's Thailand MotoGP, with Booth-Amos later confirming the incident (see below).
Next time our rider says its the bike not him!!
— Steve Brogan (@steve17brogan)
Regarding the video thats gone around today. Im haꦓppy to be out that place, thats just one of the things that happened in 2019.
— Tom Booth-Amos (@TomBoothAmos)
Six time World Superbike champion Jonathan Rea was one of maౠny to condemn the video:
Nobody should ever have to sit on that kind 🌄of behaviour. Makes me so mad watching th🦩is, especially as the team just turned the page
— Jonathan Rea (@jonathanrea)
Booth-Amos said: “The video that has appeared is from the 2019 Thai Grand Prix. There were a lot of issues with the team that year that were never spok💞en about and I kept quiet just to try and keep my ride for the 2020 season as it was my dream to stay in tha💖t paddock.
“This happened after the r🐈ace when my bike broke down due to a mechanic’s error, I was asked to not say anything and I kept quiet.
“I never told anyone including Dorna or my maꦆnagement ꦰat the time.
“That’s ⭕just one♊ thing that happened that year, people don’t know what goes on behind the TV screen.”
That prompted CIP to issue the following statement on Saturday: “About the video from 2019, on behalf of the team, we strongly denounce this kind of behaviour, and we want to publicly apol💛ogise to Tom Booth-Amos.
“A team﷽ is not the e💮ffort of one person but of a whole group of people.
“That’s why the technician is no🃏 longer involved in our team.
“Vi💞olence🎶 of any kind is not acceptable in our sport and beyond.
“We have taken all the necessary measu๊res to ensure that it does𝓀 not happen again in the future.”
The team member is still in the grand prix paddock, working for a different team. ꦏ;
Booth-Amos left grand prix⛦ at the end of 2019 and now competes in the World S𓃲upersport series.
