This weekend the Honda World Motocross team will battle in the United States as the FIM Motocross World Championship series heads to Glen Helen.
Rui Goncalves and Evgeny Bobryshev of the Honda team are currently in 6th and 8th on the overall leader board. Both riders have been riding well this season, but the fast Glen Helen track wasn’t kind to them in 2010.
Goncalves finished outside of the top 10, but still did better than Bobryshev who crashed out of the second moto.
“Glen Helen is a tough track, I had bad luck there last year when I crashed so I am going into this GP hoping to improve on last year’s result to start with and build from there,” Bobryshev said. “In many ways the track is too fast for me and it has many dangerous places, which can easily catch you out but this is kinda why I like it… you can really hang it out around there! Not only the track is good but also the whole surroundings. The weather is usually very hot so I will need to factor this in to the race strategy as well.”
Rui Gonçalves added:
“Glen Helen is a real nice track and in a real nice country. It is always good to visit a country like the U.S., where motocross is really big. It is also really interesting to be able to race against some of the American wild card riders. I have been training hard on hard-pack tracks during the break and have developed a really good feeling and have been working on some elements of race craft with my trainer. I think that the 450 will suit me around there. We have really good power and I think I will be able to use this to my advantage.”
Here is a video preview from the Honda World Motocross Team as they prepare for round three of the FIM Motocross World Championship at Glen Helen.
