Team #Suzuki Press Office – September 16.
Frank Schroyen has been a long-time familiar face within Team Suzuki. Working for more than 20 years and doing different things in the team, has made him a well-known face in the MXGP paddock and with the Suzuki family.
I got to know the team around 1993. I went there after work in the evenings to work on the bikes a little bit. The team was, at that time, based in the old workshop of Sylvain in Balen. My neighbour was Werner De Wit and I was always interested in doing some technical work on the bike, so when he joined the team, I went with him as a mechanic.
I have been a mechanic in the team for a very long time. From the end of ‘99, I started working with Mickael Pichon and with him we achieved some very good results; World Champion in 2001 and 2002. After that I worked with Steve Ramon and we also won a championship title together in 2007. As a mechanic, there is always a lot of distractions. You really have to focus at the races. What I do is always place myself in a bubble and just focus on the bike. Sometimes people start to talk to me and after the short conversation I always start my work on the bike again with the last thing I did. This way I’m always confident in my work and I didn’t forget to tighten a bolt, for example.