“I consider myself an aggressive driver, but with experience I have learned to know when something can be done and when not”
MADRID, 1 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Moto2 rider Jorge Navarro (Kalex) acknowledged that in the first part of the season he has not had “good feelings” and that “when you don’t have that ‘feeling’ it is difficult to push”, although he believes that he has found “the way” so that everything goes as expected after the summer break, at the same time that he confessed that his “most realistic” dream is to be world champion.
“It has been more difficult than I expected, I have spent the whole winter without training due to an injury, everything started upside down. We had good results in the first races, from Jerez to Assen we had a bump. I have not had a good feeling, and when you don’t have that ‘feeling’ it’s difficult to push,” said Jorge Navarro in an interview with Europa Press after an event organized by Stihl, sponsor of his Racing Pons FlexBox HP40 team.
Even so, the Valencian rider, eleventh in the Moto2 standings and with a third place in Portimao as the best result of the season, considered that he has been able to score “good points” in the ten races already held to “save the furniture” .
“In Assen I saw the light a little after these complicated races. I had very good feelings, I felt super competitive. In a category like this, where everything goes to the thousandth, when you lack a second per lap you are more than dead, he explained about the last GP, in which he finished in 12th place.
“THE ‘FEELING’ WITH THE MOTORCYCLE IS EVERYTHING, YOU ARE RISKING YOUR LIFE”
“The ‘feeling’ with the bike is everything, in the end you are risking your life, and when you are not convinced those last tenths are difficult to get,” he acknowledged about his relationship with the bike in the first part of the year. “It is not easy, everything is very tight and it is not easy to make a difference. The most positive thing is that we have already found the way and with this we can be confident that in the second part of the season things will turn out as we expect”, he added. .
The 26-year-old rider is facing the second part of the season of his sixth campaign in Moto2, so, although he considers himself “aggressive” when it comes to riding, he has acquired the experience that allows him to be “more analytical” and “Know when you can do something and when you can’t.” “In the past I have experienced this lack of sensation and when it happened to me, many times, I ended up with the bike in the stands,” he said.
“With time and experience I have been able to say: ‘come on, the best thing today could be finishing ninth, we are going to fight for it as if it were victory’, knowing that those points will serve me for the next race”, he said about his evolution on the motorcycle.
“YOU HAVE TO ACCEPT THAT WHEN YOU ARE ON 14, THE FOUR OF YOU ALWAYS LOVE YOU”
Thus, in the course in which 10 years have passed since his debut in the World Championship -in the Moto3 category- he insisted that he has the level to be world champion, his “first dream” and the “most realistic” to fulfill. . “If it’s not this year, I hope he’ll be the next one,” he predicted, before considering a step up to the top flight. “Being a MotoGP rider will come from the hand of the first dream. And to achieve it, the first toll is to recover well from the ankle,” he acknowledged.
And Navarro is clear that to be world champion “you have to have speed”, which “comes with talent”, although you also have to “work hard”. “Motorcycling has to be your life,” he noted. “You also have to have a winning character, never settle. And then there is something very important that people don’t give importance to, but I do give it to them: being where it’s time and when it’s time. That combination is what makes a driver succeed more than another with similar talent”, he analyzed as ingredients to win the title.
Finally, he addressed the importance of having mental health to face the “pressure” pilots are subjected to. “Some people go crazy,” she said in a relaxed tone. “When you win, the whole world loves you and when you are 14, the four who have always loved you love you, accepting that is the first step to having mental health, because many times the result does not depend only on you. Knowing who you are and what you are capable of makes you shine and things work out for you. Mentally, it is important to stay cool and know how to react as you have to do it,” he settled.