Febvre sets new goals for 2016!!!
Yamaha announced last week that MXGP world champion Romain Febvre would return to action during the final race of the France Elite Championship. It would be the Monster Energy Yamaha rider's first race after he crashed heavily during qualifying for the British Grand Prix where he suffered a serious concussion last month. The 24-year-old Febvre is currently in third place in the rankings on 124 points behind Tim Gajser and 32 points ahead of Antonio Cairoli, after having already missed the English (Matterly Basin) and the Italian (Mantova) Grand Prix. Before this he was only 24 points behind Tim Gajser after colliding with Ben Townley. Febvre admits that his goal for the remaining six MXGP races will now be to try to win as many GPs as possible.
“My reaction and vision are almost back to 100%, but I did lose some fitness because I haven't been able to ride for a month and so my condition will not be that perfect yet,” he told us. “I still need some time to get up to full racing speed, but I'm almost there.”
Febvre will be back at the start this weekend with the YZ450FM for the Grand Prix of the Czech Republic after initially recovering slowly but surely from his crash in the United Kingdom. “With the MRI scan we made afterwards, we saw no problems with the brain, but we did see problems with the nerves behind the eyes and therefore also had problems with the right eye,” he says. “I visited a lot of doctors and they told me to wait patiently, but it could take three weeks or three months. It was therefore difficult to concentrate on driving or cycling. So I just had to stop. I tried to drive once for Mantova, but after one lap I immediately rode in.”
The #461 was therefore in conflict with MXGP Rookie Tim Gajser until he met his setback in England and saw his chances of extending the title go up in smoke. The points gap with the Slovenian has increased somewhat, but there are still about 300 points to be earned in the remaining matches. “It was hard to accept,” says Febvre. “It wasn't my fault or Townley's. The problem was not like with a broken leg where you feel the recovery and already know approximately your return date. This incident also makes the championship almost impossible, but it is simply a situation that I cannot change.”
“Anything can still happen with Gajser, but I think more about the situation about second place with Cairoli and there is also a group that follows us very closely in the rankings,” he added. “I want to try to be fit as quickly as possible and win as much as possible in the last GPs. I think the hard-pack circuit will make Loket a bit easier because it doesn't require much physically, but then we go to Lommel and that will be a bit harder!”
Original: Adam Wheeler – ontrackoffroad.com – Dutch Version: @Kris…
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