Team HRC’s Gautier Paulin and Evgeny Bobryshev are prepared to battle for the FIM Motocross World Championship.
Team HRC’s Gautier Paulin and Evgeny Bobryshev have prepared for the 2016 FIM Motocross World Championship season in very different ways.
Paulin has been training in the US since the end of 2015. He has been putting himself through the ringer at the Baker’s Factory of renowned motocross trainer Aldon Baker in Center Hill, Florida, in order to get himself into peak condition for the MXGP grind.
“It’s been great testing with Aldon in the US,” the Frenchman said. “It’s my first time spending the winter over there and it’s been really good. As a consequence of my knee I couldn’t race at 100 percent for a while, so I’ve been working really hard to start again from zero. I want to prepare well and do it well so we’re ready for this season. It’s been great doing the boot camp out there and really helpful working with Aldon and all the facilities at the Baker Factory. It’s good to be back racing again and I’m feeling happy and ready to get behind the gate in Qatar. I’ve been training with some guys out in the US, but when it comes to racing I don’t look at the entry list–I just focus on my own riding and where I want to be. Since the start of my career I’ve always done my thing and concentrated on me, and then we’ll see where we are at the end of Saturday. But I’m excited and I’m ready.”
Bobryshev also travelled to the US for the winter but returned to Europe in January, and promptly took the Italian International MX crown. Adopting a different approach to his training and racing. In his seventh year with Honda, he and enjoyed his best season in MXGP last year, and he claims to be far ahead of where he started in 2015.
“I think this is one of my strongest starts to a season,” Bobryshev said. “I’ve never felt like this before. I changed my physical training over the winter, and we’ve done a lot of testing with the team and the bike is really suiting me now, so all of that is a great combination. I’m excited, but I try to be calm at the same time and to not get overexcited at this point because the season is long and you have to be smart.
“I feel more motivated right now,” Borbryshev added. “When the season was over last year I was already motivated for more in 2016, and we have done good work during the winter preparation. I would say I’m a different person to this time last year. I’m more calm before races and now I have more control over my own race. I feel strong and comfortable and this gives me also lots more positives like mentality gets stronger so it’s all coming together on another level at the moment.”
According to Team HRC team manager Roger Harvey a lot of effort has been put in over the winter to improve the team’s factory Honda CRF450RWs for 2016.
“A lot of work has been carried out over the winter both on HRC side and with the team in Italy, and of course the riders have both been working extremely hard in preparation to get physically ready, as we saw with Bobby [Bobryshev] especially in Ottobiano where he looked really fast. There have been lots and lots of refinements and detail changes on the bikes since last year which, will improve the overall package, so we’re keen to get started in Qatar and resuming where we left off at the end of last year.”
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