RideFast Magazine March 2020

A CHANGE OF TECHNIQUE
“I just need to ride the thing a bit more!”
“Brno was very much a ‘get your feet wet’ situation. I
have a lot to learn but I don’t want to think about it too
much. I always believe that if you over-think things or
have expectations that end up not existing then it’s
only negative. Better to try and then work out what
you need to do and to change.”
“MotoGP will mean keeping an open mind. Taking it
one day at a time. You can almost try and ‘jump-start’
situations but then you can also go a bit mad. In 2019
I made big improvements and my riding was much
better. Moto2 was hard at the beginning and that was
mainly because of my arm; it was buggered for six
months basically. Once it started to feel normal again
then I started to find my way.”
“I’m sure electronics will be a big factor and getting
my head around all that stuff. Learning to find set-up
and how to save the tyre; that’s not something you
have to worry about too much in Moto2. It is allguns-blazing
from lap one until the end. We had more
electronic options in Moto2 last year but, to be honest,
I don’t know too much about them: I turned them off!”
MINDFUL OF THE MINDSET
“First of all, I don’t want to repeat what I did in the
past: trying to make everything happen at once. That’s
how I ended up hurting myself, by pushing for too
much too soon. We are working through everything in
testing and I need to take advantage of it.”
“I know I’ll be starting nearer the back of the grid,
especially compared to what I achieved in Moto2,
but that’s definitely not where I am going to end up.
I believe that if you work at something hard enough
“MotoGP will mean keeping an open
mind. Taking it one day at a time. You can
almost try and ‘jump-start’ situations
but then you can also go a bit mad.”
84 RIDEFAST MAGAZINE MARCH 2020