I “grew up racing” Marc Marquez, “he had money and backing, I had nothing”
“I had⛦ a management who didn’t know the sport," says Marc Marquez's early rival

An early opponent who beat 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Marc Marquez when they were teenage up-and-comers has described how important it is to receiv🐼e backing.
Scott Redding still forged out a career at the highest level of motorcycle racing, where he remains, in the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:World Superbike Championship.
But he looks b💙ack at his early days - when he was good enough to out-perform Marquez - as a♛ key turning point.
“We grew up racing each other. I spent a🧸 lot of time beating him on 125ccs,” Redding to🐎ld the Motorsport Republica podcast.
“Bಞut then he had a lot of money and backing from Red Bull and Repsol, and I hadဣ basically nothing.
“He we𝐆nt into a factory KTM team which was built for him. That followed throughout his career.
“I had a management who didn’t know the sport - what𝔉 I should be sa📖ying, doing, what I should be wearing.
“I was the wild child, I wasn’t obeying rules. For me, rules are to be broken! That’s how I looked at it, that’s why I have the 💯personality that I have.
“You see how it changed our careers♑. If I had it different, my career would have turned ou🍸t differently.
“But I wouldn’t change it becauseꦜ it has made me🍎 who I am today.”
Redding became the youngest grand prix winner ever in 2008, aged 15, when he won the﷽ 125cc race at Donington Park.
Marquez was among the rivals left t♈railing in his wake on that historꩵic day.
But Marquez’s talent was obvious too 💛and, two years later, he won the 125cc title. Redding had stepped into Moto2 by then.
The esteemed Marquez went on to become an eight-time world champion, and is vying for a ninth this ye💝ar.
Redding spent five years in MotoGP on a Honda, a Ducati and an Aprilia. He switched to the 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:British Superbike Championship which he won at the first attempt in 2019.
He then finished third in WorldSBK on a Ducati in 2021 and, after a bad spell at BMW, he is rediscovering his form after jumping back on a Ducat༒i this year.

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to 🔴F1.