Roczen – I need to find myself in front of Dylan more often!
With the US Nationals heading into the second half of the season Ken Roczen has admitted he just needs to start beating Dylan Ferrandis more often! The straight talking German, now 19 points behind the Frenchman, didn’t pull any punches after Southwick at the press conference, saying he wasn’t totally comfortable despite a good day that saw him go 4-2 and take another podium.
“I honestly don’t even know what the championship gap is right now. I need to just simply find myself in front of Dylan a lot more often, assessed Roczen. “But, we still have half the season, I think just a race over half left and that’s plenty of points for grabs. Of course, we have to stay mistake-free but he does as well. There’s other riders in the mix as well. I’m just going to continue doing what I’m doing and go from there. I can’t really complain about it right now. I feel like supercross and motocross combined, I’ve been one of the more consistent riders out there, but right now I need to stick it out there and kind of start winning a little bit. I’m not putting any pressure on myself. I honestly just have been enjoying the battles that everybody has had. So, we’ll just continue doing what we’re doing.
“I just think I want to get my bike better a little bit. Having said that, you can’t really just take today as what it is. It’s just kind of a little bit of a one-off track when it comes to the soil. So, I’m not stressing about it. Even the stuff that I raced with, it’s actually the same stuff as High Point and Red Bud, so I’m just going to try and figure something out. I actually had an option to try that never even showed up due to the weather, so I’ve just been limited. But at the same time, I’m not afraid of sticking with what I have. I can make it work.”
Roczen also talked about the two point penalty he received for jumping on a yellow flag at Red Bud, “was talking to the AMA and I said that basically just the flags have to be positioned a lot better. What also threw I think all of us off a little bit that all the flag guys had full yellow t-shirt on, not even neon or anything like that to stand out. So, I know there were yellow flags and the red cross flag and everything. It was just kind of a bad deal. What am I going to tell them? I didn’t really have it straight into my eyesight and whatnot, and then there was a red cross flag actually on top of the jump, but on the back side of the jump. So, with a big take-off like that you can’t see them until you’re on the top of it as well [note: there was also a red cross flag in the corner before the jump]. It was what it was. I didn’t worry about it too much.”
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