video of her semi-comatose
mother signing the new will.
The old lady was clearly very
near death and able to respond
to questions only with indeter-
minate grunts. The daughter is
seen
to be guiding her hand. She
lost the case.
The relevance to MotoGP?
Simply to show that families
don't necessarily treat one an
-
other fairly.
Dorna
is ever anxious to
drone on about "the MotoGP
family." As if each race was a
happy picnic with rosy-cheeked
cousins playing rounders with a
tennis ball while their dad's josh
around at the barbie. Whereas,
it is a hugely expensive and
deadly serious commercial con
-
test. No softballs here.
A
n intriguing recent court
case in the UK featured
brother versus sister,
disputing the disposition of their
late mother's fortune. Shortly
before her death, the old lady
had written a new will. Previous
-
ly, her estate was to have been
shared
equally between her
two children. The new version
reversed the equal split, instead
giving it all to the sister.
She backed up her claim,
rather extraordinarily, with a
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CN II IN THE PADDOCK
BY MICHAEL SCOTT
FAMILY (MIS) FORTUNES
Aprilia suggests rules be modified
to make exceptions for riders who
missed, say, a certain number of
races through injury, be allowed to
have a private MotoGP test.
