Already with a handy
points
lead in the
lYXl
World
Championship,
it is looking
more and more
likely that Stefan Everts'
last season on the GP scene will be a
good
one,
He's already won nine
major
lnternational
races this
year,
including
the first two GPs.
We
caught
up with the
World
champ before
this week's GP in
Ponugal.
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Enjouing
gour
last
g€ar
of
racing?
stefanevert5i
l'm trying to
get
8ood
results
and
also trying to enioy my last
season, but it
goes
so
quick.
The week-
ends
are flying by;
you
work weekend by
weekend and when this weekend
is fin-
ished,
you're
already
thinking about the
next weekend
and the next race. I have
a
good
feeling that everything
is
going
well, I'm also
having
dimcult
times; after
Zolder,
it really took some time to
recover, my body needs more
time now.
It's nor all the time
perfect,
but
in
gener-
al,
l'm
pretty
happy.
havc
thc upp€r
hand. although
th€
goung€r gugs
show€d
good
form
in Spain.
stefaneverts:
For
sure,
I don't want
another season
like 1998 where it was
iust
me and Tonelli, I think for the cham-
pionship,
it's not
good. Last
year,
we had
good
races, me or
[Mickael]
Pichon, or
Ben
ffownleyl,
or
[.losh]
Coppins were
winning,
This
year
if it stays like this,
where Tortelli and I lapped
many of the
field,
it will be a
pity.
I don't think
it will
stay the same, I think those other
guys
are not so
fit, and Zolder was
really a
tough
circuit. You really had to work
hard on the
weekend and the
younger
guys
need to be
fitter - but on easier cir-
cuis, they will be better
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