Ken Roczen gave a great interview on Pulp MX about his win and the SMX series but also the Jett the situation, the honest German saying: “Nobody has really been able to put up a fight with Jett. I had so much fun reeling him and figuring it out, I don’t know, having something for him, right?
“What really pissed me off, in the moment I was stoked about the win, it wasn’t like he waved me by when I was ten seconds back. I knew I was catching him, so it took a little time to settle in. I was more pissed off the next day. Simply because I felt like he ruined the opportunity for me to put in a late moto charge, put in a pass and have an epic win and make it an epic move of the year since no-one has been able to do that. That was totally ruined, that’s what pissed me off.
“This baby gift of a win, it didn’t change anything. His “big brain move” just with the interview, I am respectful, I look at from the outside because it is what it is. I didn’t do anything wrong, I rode my ass off all the way to the end. The interview, it just sounded kinda dumb. In almost 15 years of my pro career I have never had anyone let my by, ever! So, it was the first. He hasn’t learned how to lose yet , right? He hasn’t really lost yet, he might need to learn that every now and then someone may have something for him and maybe beat him. I was probably the same way when I was that age, when you are winning everything, your ego is big. It was a funky situation, I really don’t know what to think.
“I felt like a donkey ( when Jett waved him by). My first initial thought was he would sit behind me and try and make a fool of me and charge me hard and try to pass me again – I would not have let that happen. I wasn’t looking back because I was riding my race, I knew something was up because I didn’t hear him, then I felt kinda stupid honestly, because I’m still riding, I didn’t know if he was playing.”
The MXoN at Ernee could be interesting with Roczen, who only raced one round outdoors but gave Jett a lot to think about, now in for a strong German team and then add in the MXGP guys like Gajser, Prado, Renaux, Febvre, Geerts, Seewer and it could be an epic!
Get the full interview at 31m 35 secs below:
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