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It’s difficult physically and especially mentally to not be lining up this weekend in Argentina for the opening round as reigning MXGP World Champion. Unfortunately as many of you will know I shattered my foot during a practice crash in Spain preparing for the season. I was feeling great during the winter preparation and I am convinced I was being faster and even better prepared then I was in 2018 when I won 17 out of the 19 rounds and the worsed overall finish was a 2nd.
But being fast is one thing, being at all races is another and for some reason I haven’t succeeded that well in the 2nd part.
As out spoken many times, my biggest competition for the championship is Jeffrey Herlings himself. Aswell as 2014, 2015, 2017 I might have possibly ruined another championship by taking my self out early of a championship hunt due to a injury.
Anyhow, most important for now is to heal up a full 100% and come back strong when the time is there. I feel like I let many people down and in times like this you find out who are really there for you and who are not. Ofcourse there are thousands of friends at the moment when the sky is the limit, but when you get in to the difficult part of your careere aswell as in life the real friends are hard to find, hard times teaches us valuable lessons and hard times will reveal true friends. For now I do not really know yet when i’ll get back to racing and what my plans are for the rest of the season. I’ve had many injury’s in my racing careere but the last weeks I’ve stept a few steps back from the sport and have given myself a little break to recharge the battery’s for the 2nd part of my careere I would say. I’m more motivated then ever and I would like to thank all my partners, sponsors, family and close friends who are there for me for there support.
And we will be back on top before we know. And believe me, we are going to be back nr. 1
See him line up at Hangtown seems unlikely.
He's coming to the Nationals. Stamp it!
It would be smart for KTM and smart for Jeffrey. Leave 2nd year into your 450 career, win a US championship, then go after the GP records. The fans gained plus doing something no one has done would be huge. Although coming off an injury who knows what would happen...
Even cairoli is a better conversation for GOAT.
Herlings is as much of the GOAT as JS7.
Let’s have this conversation if and when he starts racking up titles.
Looks like ol' trippple two is gonna be a mighty stout competitor again this season.
I would say that if Tony stays healthy, then Herling's chances would be extremely slim if he misses two rounds.
Tough to gain very many points winning events, if Tony settles in behind him for second place. And, I think Tony is smart enough to do just that, rather than risk crashing trying to straight up beat him at individual events, if Tony has a large lead in the points.
Pit Row
Keep in mind that our riders split the season between SX and MX... they wouldn’t be able to come over here and just whip us in SX. SX is a completely different animal that they don’t have a ton of experience in. Covington is a perfect example of that fact. However, since all they do is outdoor MX tracks... if we didn’t think we could learn a lot from them than we are just kidding ourselves. Herlings, Prado, Lawrence, etc... are head and shoulders better at carrying momentum in turns than our riders. I’m really hoping Herlings comes over so we can really break down that technique, but at the very least we have Lawrence and Covington to learn from on the 250s.
Also, please stop turning the conversation towards supercross. He is not going to try and take that on. There is a small sliver of hope, because of extremely unique circumstances, that he could come race some outdoors here.. and that is it.
Pics from Aldon’s
Sun Tan
Those will be the indicators.
he will miss at least 3 or 4 GP's before he maybe gets on that bike again ..
only hope is it has healed that good a new cast isnt needed and he gets on a bike within 2 or 3 weeks
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