Jeremy Seewer: On Fire

Monster Energy Yamaha Factory Racing rider Jeremy Seewer is very much the form rider at the moment and despite falling sick during the sensational MXGP of Indonesia, he has won two out of four GP’s and scored 1-2-3-1-1-2 from all but the Indonesian round, where we mentioned he was sick with food poisoning and could only muster a 12-9 score.

Last weekend around the hard pack of Loket, in the Czech Republic, the rider from Switzerland scored his fourth MXGP overall win and his ninth in his career (five coming in MX2) and looked nearly unbeatable. Now in second place in the World Championship standings, Seewer knows that his confidence can see him close up the points gap on series leader Tim Gajser, of the Team HRC factory team.

“It’s incredible to win this one,” Seewer said. “Even though I feel like I could have gone 1-1 but I just made one mistake too much. I was a bit quicker, but Maxime (Renaux) was riding really well, and although I tried to catch him, I couldn’t make it happen, so I took the GP win, which is amazing after a tough week. I feel like I was not perfectly prepared for this one but I’m not giving up, there are still a few rounds left and I will fight for as many points as possible. We will see what we get, and I will try to win some more.”

As mentioned, his Indonesian round was a shocker as he lacked energy and just couldn’t fight for major points, but as all very good riders do, he dug his heels in and tried to secure as many points of possible under really tough conditions.

"I felt amazing coming here; I was super fit Friday and excited to race, but then the hammer came. Friday night, after dinner, I got really sick. Something was really wrong, so I did not ride all of Saturday. I was just trying to survive. I was completely destroyed but just had to do two or three laps to learn the track and the start of the qualifying race. Sunday, I am happy with where I finished. I have come a long way since the Saturday, when I was at rock bottom with this sickness. I hit the gate in the first race and then, after that, I came from last and finished twelfth, which is okay. Passing was very difficult if you are trying to save energy and just survive. The second race was the same story. I did not make any big mistakes, just stalled the bike once. P9 in these conditions? I have to be happy with that.”

Now onto the deep, black sand of Lommel, where Seewer is 7-5-5-3-4 on his last five races there and while not one of the big favourites, with his current run of confidence and good results, maybe the likeable Yamaha rider can actually score his first victory at the tough sand circuit.

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