Currently third in FIM Motocross World Championship points behind class front-runner Jorge Prado and Romain Febvre, Monster Energy Yamaha MXGP competitor Jeremy Seewer has taken a win in France and placed inside the top five in all but one round from the first 12 this season. And he thinks it’s actually been better than that.
“Honestly, I feel a lot better than what the results show,” says Swiss native Seewer. “I’ve felt good. I worked hard during the wintertime to be in really good shape but for some reason with many GPs, things didn’t really click for me, you know? There were always small things happening and there was a bit of bad luck and all sorts of other stuff, but overall I was still collecting points. Sometimes, though, I wasn’t collecting enough
Speed, tenacity and being error-free on race day are the attributes Seewer believes he will need to adhere to firmly in order to cut into Prado’s championship lead.
“There are two or three strong racers right now — me, Prado and Febvre doing a little better than the others, but you can never make any mistakes because there are still three or four other guys being quite strong and being able to run our pace,” he notes. “Maybe not for the full moto, but still, the class over here is quite competitive.
“The strongest tool I have is my consistency and I will be consistent to the last moto of the year, where others will falter sometimes,” vows Seewer. “At the beginning most of the racers start strong, but then towards the end of the year they lose momentum. I don’t know if they lose focus, lose motivation, whatever it is, they lose something. I will always be the same towards the end or even better. I just want to keep pushing and keep working and getting better every weekend. I think this is what will make me strong for the last few races of the year.
“It is never easy. Especially in Europe because the racing is so different in every country that we go to. We’ve also been racing in cold weather, like when we raced in Switzerland. And then the tracks are so much different everywhere we go to. We have sand tracks and hard tracks.
