Julien Beaumer has opened some eyes this season with his performances and his technical ability on the bike. The factory KTM rookie has shown just how much potential he has with bursts of elite speed, especially when he gets the starts, and it looks like KTM have found another potential star.
With his rookie season done after the Vegas SMX, Marco Kamper caught up with Beamer to talk about his first year on the AMA tour and his night in Vegas.
Julien, season’s a wrap. How do you look back on the season?
Lots of highs, lots of lows, a lot of decent days. We take a lot out of the season, rookie year in both supercross and motocross a good SMX season and got my first podium. We’re happy in a sense and back to work and fix for next year, but we got three months to find tune everything and get ready to go. Yeah, I’m happy with the season so far and I think this is to have a full first for the season and being healthy is very important. So, being out of this safe and then going into the off-season healthy.
So today it seemed like the speed was there, yet the results weren’t there. What was the problem according to you?
The starts, I had the speed but I got bad starts and I was never able to work through, The track was very tight, very hard to pass on and I just struggled making moves and getting up there. I crashed both motos as well so that didn’t help me, I made good ground and went down and dropped back again, so I need to work on that. But we have a lot of positives to look at in the off-season.
Second race, you were behind Tom. How much in your mind were there team games, you know, because Tom was still battling for the SMX Championship?
Yeah, obviously Deegan had a big gap for the win but it’s a triple points, So one pass could lose him, and he could be fourth for the championship, and lost a ton of money. I lost some money too but we both went down in that moto and we didn’t have the greatest race. So, obviously I got behind him and obviously I’m not going to hit him. So I sat with him and tried to ride with him and I ended up going down and he went down.
I know for this season you’ve got a trainer, you’ve got Davy Millsaps. How much does he help you with like rider technique or does he help you with on your mental side?
The main point is obviously riding technique at first when I was working with him, but I think we have that down, obviously it’s fine tuning thing. Obviously you have to be in top shape, so fitness always comes first then you have to focus on the mental side for me, be prepared every weekend, believing in yourself and having that confidence, I think that is a big thing we will focus on this off-season.
Being so young, what do you think you’re lacking the most and is it like, you know, your strength or is it like just to be able to do both motives on a day or what is it that you think you’re going to work on for the winter?
I mean, I think you can always get better. I feel like I’m very strong and I’m in a good spot, but obviously you’re never fully there, we are going to get back to work, get back in the gym and try and get stronger and then I just believing in yourself try to focus on believing in yourself and try to focus on the work you do every day.
So for the winter, are there any races planned like overseas races planned or do you want to do those in the future?
For sure, yeah, obviously my dad is from France, I want to race in Europe and do those races. This year I’m not sure what is on the schedule yet, maybe we’ll race Paris, but we’ll see what happens.Â
If so, I’ll see you in Paris!
