Despite four zero scores, a broken …. It was hard not to feel sorry for Romain Febvre and Tim Gajser and their teams after moto two on Sunday amidst the jubilation of Jeffrey Herlings championship victory.
Both …. The Belgian decided to leave the …. The Belgian grabbed the GP …. However, I wonder if he will be able to match the intensity of the younger riders in the class. Although that was not a problem for him when he was last on the smaller bike, a lot has changed since then, so it will be interesting to see how he adapts.
However, he will not be as rusty as you may think, as Christophe has competed in and won a couple of local GNCC races recently. So, he has clearly been riding quite frequently. Undoubtedly, it will be an interesting sub-plot to see how he performs in the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross series. But, there a handful of months before the series starts, which means that there will be a lot of free-time for us all to wonder whether Christophe will be a title contender or not.
Honestly, I would be surprised if his deal with Valli Yamaha does not go pear-shaped at some point. Then when I got back on the bike and came back to the U.
If I would have been fine without my crash and being in pain all the time, I would have had a lot more success for sure. The crash just happened in front of me. I wish it just never happened. When you were paralyzed for that brief time, did you always know you were coming back? Did you know you were going to recover, or were you actually not even sure at first?
I was paralyzed from the waist down. There was an 80 percent chance to stay paralyzed a long time, probably forever, depending on how bad the edema was in my back. So we waited it out and then 14 months later it kind of just clicked for me and it kind of came back.
I lost about 30 or 35 pounds. I already skinny so I looked pretty bad! I was in pain. They gave me a lot of medicine for my pain. That was bad for the future when I got back to the U. The goal was just to be able to walk again? There was no racing anymore for me at all. I was in the wheelchair. It was very tough. So, for sure, at least a year. When you were able to come back and ride well, and win again, did that make it even sweeter that you had come so far back and you had even moved to the United States and won?
Or were you always kind of like bummed out that you could not quite feel perfect like you maybe did before? Your question is good because everything I did, I could have been so much better. Like you said, I have had a lot of ups and a lot of downs. I think a lot of my crashes happened at the wrong time for me for sure. That was my goal. My only goal to come to the U. But for sure, it made it so special for me.
So coming back from what I came back from and dealing with all my injuries, it was such a good time for me. It was a tough time, but I will remember those times forever. It was amazing. The big problem was that people would see you ride well in the first moto or qualifying or one week, and then the next week, second moto, whatever it was, it would be tough for you to do it again.
That just leads to weirdo mysteries and stories. It was kind of weird. Being not so consistent, like we talked about, my injuries, they never helped me. I had trainers, some French trainers, I had a lot of trainers in my years. It had to be just weird. Everything was tough. The injuries were tough. Dealing with the people was tough. Adapting to the people here also was tough.
My stomach was giving me a lot of problems. I would just rather focus on myself. I had so many different problems that I had to take care of and flew back to Europe and did all kinds of stuff with my stomach. Even this year before the championship, they took my gall bladder out to help me finally even feel better, because of my injury and all the pills that I took in the past because other injuries. While Pourcel showed the stuff to battle the likes of Ryan Dungey and Ryan Villopoto for titles, his personality was always a bit of a mystery.
This led to many questions over his effort level and general motivation, clouded only further by his injuries. No doubt, though, he could turn a lap with anyone when he found his comfort level. Pourcel won back-to-back SX titles in and , and only savage luck cost him the Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship in both of those years his bike broke at Southwick while he was leading the points with three motos to go in ' In , he appeared set to win a final-round showdown with Trey Canard only to crash and break his shoulder.
He stated he wanted to move to the s with his customary brand, Kawasaki, but somehow ended up without a ride at all for his rookie season in
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