Andrea Adamo has had a tough season trying to recapture the form that took him to the world championship crown in 2023. It hasn’t been through a lack of effort and indeed, when things have clicked Adamo has been able to win and fight for podiums, but bad starts and crashes have hindered his title defence.
We spoke to an honest Andrea about his difficult season at Lommel. “It has been quite an up and down season,” he admitted. “Not the same as last year, last year was quite consistent. This year I think, in some situations, the speed was higher than last year, but I was missing some pieces of the puzzle compared to last year.
“I didn’t have such a nice winter, really a rough winter, struggling a little bit with the bike, not finding the right set-up straight away, missing some quality training, so I arrived at the first race and I was not really ready. You need to be at 100% to fight with those guys, because we all are on a similar level. You need all the pieces to be in front of them.
And bad starts haven’t helped him either! “Unfortunately I always need to come back (from a bad start). The only one I started pretty good, second, they stopped with the red flag. It’s something we need to improve for next year because when you start in the top three everything comes easier than when you start 10,11,12 and have to come back.”
Has being world champion affected Adamo with the pressure to defend his title? He says no.
“Everything is okay (mentally). I have been focused every race and not thinking about, ‘I’m the world champion and need to do better.” I was really focusing on every GP to do the best, give the best, so no it has been fine.”
Adamo will be back this weekend after missing Lommel and hopefully so will those starts so we can see the Italian back up front and dueling for wins again.
