JEFFREY HERLINGS
What about you? There was a pretty hefty Supercross crash in the winter… Roczen was practicing at the same track, Dungey and Musquin too and those guys had some gnarly crashes also but it is hard work to be consistent on a supercross track. I was there for one month and I think I had five or six big crashes. It [SX] is very different. We are still thinking about giving it a try next year but it will be a big step. How do you feel about another year in MX2? With Searle, Roelants and Van Horebeek going it could be a cakewalk… You can’t take it for granted. Every year there is a surprise. If you go back four years who would ever have expected that Roczen and me would show up and have success like that straightaway? Maybe next year there will be a big surprise. It seems like Tonus will be my main rival.
But still you managed to pass 30 odd riders in Italy earlier this year… Yeah! I don’t know what to say to that but I just like to win and will always try. Less than half the season to go and do you think you can arrive to a position where people will give you full credit for what you achieved rather than what you said or did in the heat of the moment? Off the track I haven’t been good at all. There might have been hundreds or maybe thousands of kids who saw that interview after Portugal. It is never good to be swearing on TV and for sure I lost a lot of fans through that. I am working hard to try and get back the respect I have gained in the previous years and I hope I can get that from the guys both on the track and off it. The riding often does most of the talking so I want to keep on pushing to win and then work to get back fans I might have lost through the other stuff.