CYCLE NEWS RIDER OF THE YEAR / MOTOAMERICA SUPERBIKE CHAMPION CAMERON BEAUBIER
P76
Interview
them. To be honest, after I made
the announcement and all that,
it's been super-cool seeing how
many people are supporting me
going over there and all this stuff.
It makes me feel good to have all
this American support and seeing
people wanting to pay attention to
all this. It's awesome. I'm taking
America to Europe with me. The
base I built here in America with
friends and fans and to be able
to take them over there with me
is pretty cool and pretty special. I
hope I make them proud. It's go-
ing to be tough, but no better time
to do it than now.
What'll be your expectations
these first few months with
testing?
It's really hard to say. That's
why I'm really excited to do this
first test to just try and shake
things down. I want to go into
the off-season and kind of figure
out what I need to work on for
next year. Obviously, I want to be
competitive, but I just don't want
to get ahead of myself. I'm an-
other American coming over and
I think they're excited for it, which
is really cool. But as far as ex-
pectations, I'm just going to kind
of stay in my lane for now and let
my riding do the talking and see
where that gets me. And dude,
I'm pretty pumped on how happy
Wayne [Rainey] is for me going
over there. Yeah, it just kind of
goes to show that the bottom line
is that it is not easy for an Ameri-
can to get over there and race at
that level in GP. Wayne has really
opened the door for us to do
that, which is pretty cool. Yeah,
I've talked to Wayne a little bit
and just kind of picked his brain
about all this. When all of this
first came up, I said to Wayne,
"What do you think about me
doing this?" His belief in me has
been really cool. Wayne Rainey.
It's Wayne Rainey, right? He's my
hero. Yeah, like I said, it's cool
to have all the support, and I just
hope to make all of you guys
proud.
Five titles in six years for the boy
from Roseville, CA. Next stop, Moto2
World Championship.
