Team Suzuki Press Office – August 10.
Sylvain Geboers passed the Suzuki World MXGP reigns and his life’s work over to Stefan Everts six months ago, moving himself into the background, but he has had a front-row seat witnessing ‘The Legend’s’ impact in the team.
It is great to see my previous staff in full action and all working well with new management of Stefan and Kelly. It is not easy to start management of a team with the first races being overseas, but it was great to see the outcome. How the team presence was in Qatar, Thailand and Argentina was very professional, the team had the perfect set-up, giving them the feeling of working from home. They had all the practical facilities on-board to do a great job and it showed strong management from Stefan’s side. The staff had worked day and night to make that set-up work and to get it finished in time. The team has really brought it all together and made the vision happen.
The MXGP team has been so unlucky this year in rider’s presence; we had illness and injuries for Ben Townley and more injuries for Kevin Strijbos and I’m sure it gave Stefan some sleepless nights. But I’m confident he can manage. Also, I have ‘gotten to know ‘BT’ for the last couple of months and really regret not working with him when he was at his highest level. It is too bad, he is such good guy to work with and is so professional; a very nice person.