Suzuki’s Kevin Strijbos is in cautious mood ahead of his home Lommel MXGP round this weekend as he is still not fully healed from the arm injury sustained in Italy.
The Belgian completed two motos in Estonia - something he hadn’t done since the fifth round at Trentino in Italy - after adding a back injury during the Portugese qualifying race.
“My arm is getting better. The infection is out which is obviously a good thing but it did mean that I couldn’t do too much after Loket while I was waiting for it to heal. The doctors cleaned it all under local anaesthetic but then informed me that it was best if I avoided sweating, so that meant I couldn’t really do anything,” said Strijbos.
“The first I rode was this past weekend for a race in Belgium. I’m always looking forward to Lommel, it’s a special place, it always gets really rough and it’s always a busy GP because it’s the teams and my home GP. I feel good but there is a question mark over how prepared I’ll be for the weekend as I haven’t been able to do as much as I wanted in the sand.
“I want to be positive though and although I’m not sure I’ll be able to win the event like I did last year, I still want to give it everything I have for all the fans. It was a great moment for me and for the team, so it’d be great if we could do it again, but I just want to put in a good performance.”
