Tom Booth-Amos kicked by his mechanic - CIP: “Violence not acceptable"
The folloಞwing vi🦄deo, filmed at the 2019 Buriram round, surfaced on social 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 happy🐼 to be out that place, thats just one of the things that ha♏ppened in 2019.
— Tom Booth-Amos (@TomBoothAmos)
Six 🍌time World Supe❀rbike champion Jonathan Rea was one of many to condemn the video:
Nobody should ev♓er have to sit on that kind of behaviour. Makes me so mad watching this, 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 th𝐆e team that year that were never spokenꦜ about and I kept quiet just to try and keep my ride for the 2020 season as it was my dream to stay in that paddock.
“This happened▨ after the race when my bike broke down due to a mechanic’s error, I was 𝐆asked to not say anything and I kept quiet.
“I never told anyone including🐲 Dorna or my management at the time.
“That’s just one thing thꦫat happened that year, people don’t know๊ what goes on behind the TV screen.”
Th⛦at prompted CIP to issue ൩the 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 apologise to Tom Booth-Amos.
“A team is not the ❀♉effort of one person but of a whole group of people.
“That’s why the tec𝓀hnician is no longer involv🤡ed in our team.
“Violence of any kin⛄d is not acceptable in our sport and beyond.
“We have taken all 🐲the necessary measures to ensure that it does not happen again in th꧅e future.”
The team member is still𓄧 in the grand prix paddock, working for a different team.
Booౠth-Amos left grand prix at the end of 2019 and now competes in the World Supersport series.
