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MXGP 2020: HERLINGS<br />
The way you race makes that<br />
difficult to believe…<br />
You need some injuries, and<br />
then you’ll understand.<br />
It is rare to see you at anything<br />
less than 100% committed…<br />
Look at Assen last year. In<br />
the last moto I was OK to<br />
take fourth. I wasn’t feeling<br />
good that day with the mud.<br />
I thought ‘if this is my worst<br />
day – a 2nd and a 4th – then<br />
I’m still looking good if it was<br />
a championship’. You need a<br />
few hospital visits to be able to<br />
think that like.<br />
You still looked annoyed that<br />
day though…<br />
I was disappointed in myself<br />
because I feel like I failed…but<br />
at the same time I was smart.<br />
It wasn’t my day, but I accepted<br />
it. I had worked for more<br />
than two months just for that<br />
race but nothing went for me;<br />
the starts were bad, the track<br />
had been flattened each time<br />
and that meant it was harder<br />
to pass, and then the conditions.<br />
So, I was pissed, mainly<br />
because it hadn’t rained for<br />
like two months in Holland and<br />
then it didn’t stop that weekend!<br />
Quite a lot went wrong<br />
for me but looking back I think<br />
it was one of my best races<br />
because I accepted not to win.<br />
It’s something I wouldn’t have<br />
been able to do two years ago.<br />
The older you get; is it easier<br />
to think more like Tony Cairoli<br />
where a podium each weekend<br />
means a very high level of<br />
consistency…?<br />
Yeah, that’s my goal as well<br />
this year. There are definitely<br />
some tracks where I really want<br />
to go for the win, but when I<br />
go to somewhere like Russia<br />
or Czech Republic then I know<br />
these places are not my tracks.<br />
If I can get on the podium then<br />
that’s good enough and – most<br />
importantly – I get to the races<br />
after. I need to be at each GP.<br />
Injuries can happen but you<br />
have to remind yourself to be<br />
smart. It’s easy to sit here at<br />
this table and say it but you’ll<br />
see it in my racing this year:<br />
if I can get a win or a podium<br />
then I’ll try for it otherwise I’m<br />
OK to let it go.
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