Over the weekend, on his website RV2.com, Ryan Villopoto wrote a blog outlining the first three rounds of the FIM World Motocross Championship. In the post, RV talks about how the racing is different in Europe compared to the U.S. writing, “The racing itself over here is just different as well. In America, I like to say, we play checkers. While here, they play chess.” He also writes about his time in Bangkok for the MXGP of Thailand and his trip to Argentina and his results thus far. It’s a good read if you have time to check it out. Below is an excerpt. Read the entire thing on RV2.com.
It’s been a hectic last couple months, but feel like its time to update all of you on what’s been going on. So let’s start from the first race in Qatar: Definitely, didn’t go the way we wanted. Our bike set-up was quite a ways off and therefore I was struggled the entire weekend. To make matters worse, in the second race I somehow got a rock wedged inside the rear brake and you can imagine no brake, no bueno. The Entire second half of moto two was sketchy. The whole weekend was just off, but it’s about learning and moving forward. So it was time to get our test on.
Back to Belgium, we tested for two days and made some good progress. Its tough because our tracks in the states are much different than the tracks here. The speed you can ride is so much different. We can push on our tracks, but on theirs the dirt is very particular and you have to be very aware of when you can and cannot push. Sometimes you have to go slower to go faster, which for me is hard to wrap my head around. The bike settings are much different as well because of the dirt. You have to run a softer fork setting because you don’t have the same load on the suspension. I think we are getting closer each day so we can more or less do some fine-tuning from here on out.
