Roger Harvey interview

Roger Harvey a veteran of the sport of Motocross, former racer, team manager and now one of the head men in the HRC Honda effort at the FIM World Motocross Championships. Harvey knows his stuff and his involvement with riders like Evgeny Bobryshev and Max Nagl can only be a positive step for Team HRC.

The last couple of years have not been kind to both Bobryshev and Nagl, but now training in Sardinia they are both 100% fit and ready to show the World what they are capable of. We talked to Harvey about their progress and preparation for 2014.

Q: Roger, in both 2012 and 2013 your riders have struggled somewhat with injuries and other problems. Can you explain how
the boys are doing this year in their training and preparation?

Harvey: In 2013 the first race Max rode he got injured, and was in the hospital, and in the third race Evgeny got injured. Both riders are fit now and training well in Sardinia and they have our trainer down there.

Q: What is the plan for the coming weeks before Qatar?

Harvey: We have testing in Sardinia next week and then the riders will compete in the first round of the Italian championships. We will do the first round, we won’t do the second round in Sicily because the riders have another engagement, and then we might do the
third round of the Italian Championship.

Q: So just the two races before the opening round of the MXGP in Doha?

Harvey. Yes, that is right, we won’t do Valence and Hawkstone Park. We might go to Qatar early just to work in the heat and get some things sorted out. It looks like Boby will do that and Max will probably remain in Europe and continue his training program.
Q: Training in Sardinia I can’t think of a better place to be in the winter, down there in the South of Europe. I can imagine a lot of riders are down there preparing.

Harvey: There are a lot of riders down in Sardinia, obviously a lot of Italians, I have never been, but will go this week, but I hear there are good tracks and we have a good facility there.