For an American, Ben Spies really loves Italy. He raced in, and won, the 2009 WSBK championship with an Italian team, and resides for most of the year in Como. So what better place could there be to get his career back on track than Ducati?
Read more: http://www.gpone.com/index.php/en/201301179187/Spies-I-chose-Ducati-with-my-heart.html#ixzz2IMeEbRw9.
We really love this interview for a lot of reasons - it's important to love Italy if you race for Ducati (yea,yea, it's a German company now, but it's soul remains Italian) And he's taking the man up approach to a number of things. Ben Spies didn't just wash up on Ducati's beach. Worth a read.