"Motivation is always there, but the travel was heavy: Turkey, China, Australia, back to the U.S., so the biggest challenge was the travel... Maybe I wasn’t feeling on my best level because of the travel and after the championship. I found I rode well and the European riders, we were okay against [the AMA riders]. Maybe Australia won with Jett and Hunter, but some European riders, like Tim [Gajser], or Lucas [Coenen] or myself, we were sometimes close to them. It was nice to see where we are compared to them."

MXGP World Champion Romain Febvre on the long journey to the Ironman MXoN for him and other MXGP riders/Racer X Online