Hear from 90s legend, Greg Albertyn, in conversation with Jase McAlpine, as the three-time world champion and AMA National champ as well as a supercross winner talks about his GP rival Everts, AMA rival Windham and the guy Albee thinks is the most talented rider, ever, Jett Lawrence plus his memories of that Foxhill pass on Kurt Nicoll!
Stefan Everts
Everts was a fierce competitor but I had him whooped before I got to the start line the two years I beat him. I was in his head big time. I would try to pick up on his girlfriends. We lived in Belgium, so every week the media was putting us against each other, every week he’s like, “I’m going to annihilate Albertyn.” Then on the Monday, the report comes out that he got lucky again – so I would kind of play into that a bit. I think a lot of it was in the paddock the way would (be), “I am going to smoke you.”
They are very stoic and serious, rattled him big time. That guy, natural talent on a bike was magnificent, absolutely magnificent to watch. The difference I think was Everts would have his boundary and he would never go beyond that, and that’s where I would beat him, I was willing to hang it out that much more and just stuff it in on him or whatever.
See Albee and Everts go at it at the Genk International in 94:
Jett Lawrence
I think Jett has that (Everts style) plus the ability where he can up his game, at any time. I don’t think I have seen an individual as gifted on a motorcycle in my entire life, it’s magnificent. He can get kicked so gnarly and react before the bike has even done it and he’s compensated for it, it’s phenomenal.
Kevin Windham
Probably the second most talented guy I have ever seen on a motorcycle. Natural talent… amazing. I don’t think he had the heart. I’ll take heart any day (over talent). If he really wanted to win he could have won pretty much every race he ever entered but that fight, if you don’t have fight, that real grit, it will prevent you.
Passing Kurt Nicoll at Foxhill in 94.
He was going well, I had a lot of fans in England, I don’t know why, I think there were 30,000 people there that day and I think I was in third, and I could not pass him! I am charging everywhere, sticking a wheel in but I could not pass him. We come down this really steep hill, it has a little lip, another drop-off and then it would go up, you hit the brakes, drop off and into the corner.
This one lap, I am like I am done following this guy and he’s on the brakes and he just hears “braaaaap” and I hit this lip and I land so hard on the face I folded it over but I stuck it on the inside! I had to, I had a championship to win!
See the pass below:
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