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MXGP<br />
MXGP<br />
[Romain] Febvre and [Clement]<br />
Desalle. Everyone has their<br />
turn every couple of seasons. It<br />
frustrating.<br />
Is there a different approach to<br />
this season then? Realisation of<br />
the sixty starts and forty motos<br />
to come? A repeat of 2018<br />
perhaps isn’t necessary…<br />
My mentality is different. I don’t<br />
feel that I have to win any more<br />
– I mean, I want to win but in<br />
the past if I didn’t then I had<br />
‘failed’ and the world would fall<br />
in. I’ve learned that your health<br />
is the most important thing.<br />
Racing is important to me but<br />
my health and my life waymore.<br />
So if I have to take risks<br />
to win then I don’t want to do it.<br />
I want to be in the ‘safe zone’.<br />
You can definitely still crash or<br />
go down in the start and break<br />
bones at any time but sometimes<br />
I went a bit ‘over’. <strong>No</strong>w I<br />
prefer to be in the safe zone and<br />
take a 3rd at whatever race than<br />
take a risk and end up in hospital<br />
again. My goal this year is to<br />
be at all twenty races. And to try<br />
and fight for the championship.<br />
Try to become a bit smarter and<br />
maybe lose a few fights but try<br />
to win the war.<br />
In 2018 you virtually changed<br />
the sport and raised the level.<br />
Do you ever think about that or<br />
are you too close to it?<br />
I did it the Aldon [Baker] way.<br />
I went all-out. If 100% was the<br />
maximum I did 110. I watched<br />
every single piece of food I ate,<br />
I calculated sleep and jet lag,<br />
I trained my ass-off, I left my<br />
social life on the side for almost<br />
a year. It was tough. I took the<br />
Aldon method for supercross<br />
but perhaps went even more extreme.<br />
It is hard to do that just<br />
for a few years, physically and<br />
mentally. It was worth it though<br />
to come to that level and win<br />
17 from 19 races and finish<br />
second twice: I think it is one<br />
of the greatest seasons a rider<br />
has had. I also won pre-season<br />
races, all the Dutch Championship<br />
events I did, and my class<br />
at the Motocross of Nations. It<br />
was almost a picture-perfect<br />
year…and I cannot do it again.<br />
First of all you need to be lucky<br />
and you need to take some risks<br />
to make it happen: I remember<br />
starting some races from fifteenth<br />
and still pushing hard for<br />
the win. I’m not looking for that<br />
now. I won the championship by<br />
something like 150-points and<br />
through missing a race and you<br />
can win a championship by just<br />
5 points if necessary. I don’t feel<br />
like I need to win every single<br />
race anymore.
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