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Or have the competition got that much better?
I hope he can get his mojo back and mix it up with the others.
The Shop
"I don't know what to say. I don't know why the speed isn't there. I'm gonna keep on working."
I don't remember if it was his championship year or not, but that race where he crashed downhill and bent his bars all up into a pretzel - then got up and not just finished, but did very well - that's what finally grabbed my attention and made me think, "OK, I'm sticking with this and watching the GPs from here on out."
Anyhow, he's always the guy I've pulled for since that day, but just like the Nats over here, at the end of the day, as long as each rider goes home healthy, I'm good with whatever transpires. I just like to watch good MX, and the GPs and the Nats provide that.
He will win a GP this year at some point.
During his championship year he was building confidence during the early rounds with top 5s and some moto podiums, when he won that moto in Matterly Basin he gained a ton of confidence right before Desalle and Nagl went out with injury and Cairoli was slowed with his wrist injury that eventually sidelined him.
It was the perfect storm of Febvre building his momentum and then everyone else imploding on themselves. Because that season was supposed to be the RV vs AC show down, and Nagl and Desalle were the points leaders for the first 7-8 races. But once Febvre got the ball rolling there wasn't mush the rest of the pack could do to slow him down.
Hopefully he can find that mojo again, he had it to start 2016, but Gajser is on the gas and has the confidence on his side.
Pit Row
That is all just...... imho.
last weekend in italy he had a good start at the quali on saturday. He kept himself just behind the leaders the entire race and ended up fourth.
You just cant muscle your way up from a bad start in mxgp (if your not ac222 lol). The top 10-15 riders are very very fast and all have similar speed.
Febvre needs, just as herlings, to figure out the starts.
Plus when he won the title he came on strong late in the season when everyone else had fallen out. RV crashed out, AC was hurt and nagl got hurt too.
he's also dealing with some injuries this year apparently. He'll be a contender but not this season. Gasjer is in beast mode
Needs some starts and a couple good results from that, then it'll come.
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