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our relationship is uh strange i mean is
is not very much of a hug or kisses
i want to take you back to
when you were a kid and when you were
growing up but i'd like to start by
talking about your parents
what do you think you learned from your
mom
for me i am the
a special mix between my father and my
mother because are a very different
person
my father is more
crazy open like this
my mother she's more more close more
quiet
but
she have a great great passion for for
the sports
she understands that sport is very
important for for growing up in a good
way because give to you a lot of good
things in that help helps you in in a
normal life also
and it is also
she liked a lot of motorcycle races
racing because uh she's growing up with
my father you know so she pushed me a
lot to
to to raise what do you think you
learned from your dad graciano gives me
the the passion for for uh for races and
uh and helped me a lot for my career and
also gaziano is uh
work hard
but
is never serious
he's always always uh funny when you
were 14 your
mom and dad separated for me before it
was 10 or 11. okay yes i think um how do
you think that impacted you looking back
now it was better like this because they
always fight you know so when uh you are
a child and you have 10 years old and
you see your parents always fight it's
not it's not good it's a good atmosphere
you know when they separate
for me it was better
for my life
because
first of all uh my father was more give
me more pressure also with the school
you have to study you have to take these
votes uh if not you have to stay at home
like this yeah my mother was more open
she trusts more in me so when they
separate
i go to with my mother so for me my life
become more easy and she moved out of
tuvalia to a nearby town yes
before we live in in tabula and after my
my mother moved to montecio that is a
place like
five kilometers and uh it was a bit
difficult at the beginning because i
have to change the school
and uh
i wasn't i was not in the school with my
good friend i understand uh your dad was
very strict that the two of you would
argue a lot um how so now
you know you know in you have a a moment
a part of the life where your the the
the relationship with your parents with
your father is always difficult you know
but now we are okay yes when
i become more more old like 20 years
older we have a good relationship yes
you understand more your father no
because you become
more older
you know at the beginning when when you
are very young
in general uh
you you don't want any restriction from
your parents right you want to
be free and go around don't study so the
parents are there they have to put your
uh under pressure for try to follow a
good way and how true is it that i was
amazed when i read this that the two of
you just started saying i love you to
one another
yes he's uh
first of all i don't call him a mom and
dad but i call him a graciano stephania
and why i found that interesting
i don't know why
because
our relationship is uh strange i mean is
uh is not very much of a hug or kisses
like this we stay always
is a part of our character they have me
when they are very young very very young
because graciano have 25 years okay
and
my mother is more young so 22.
so when i arrive they are very very
young so i feel them like more like
friends tell about the the the crash
that your dad had
that caused him to stop racing yes he
raced in one race in in the italian
championship and they had a big a big
crash with the with the slow rider with
the lapid rider in a in a in a fast
corner for overtake they touch
and uh it was a very bad crash and it
was very very
close to to death i stay in coma like
for
four or five days so when uh when he
come back he don't see from one heist hi
and i remember him i stayed with him at
the beginning in in the in the hospital
and the everyone hides like this like
the the pirates you know
now he's okay so okay
like before how did that crash you think
impact your mom's interest in you
getting into racing yeah my mom at the
beginning was uh was scary because
garcia have a lot of crushes so not not
easy to
a difficult career so my mother my mom
was a bit scared what sacrifices do you
think your parents had to make so you
could pursue
racing
graziano helped me very much at the
beginning of my career and because i was
the
the son of graciano graciano was was
famous because
he raised him 500 so he was a famous
rider also for his style
so he helped me very much and uh and
racing isn't cheap though either yeah
they spend money
um
so i i don't know if without graziano i
become a motogp rider
you