a bike and Suzuki had a good 65 at that time and it was a lot of fun. and I got really good support after the first year when I started to do well. I had a local Suzuki dealer in my town who started to support me. relationship with Suzuki really started, actually.”Then I switched to 85 on Suzuki When do you realise that you were good enough to make a career out of motocross?“It was actually my penultimate year on 85s, or maybe even the year before where I started to do really well in the international ADAC German championship. I started to finish on the podium and some bigger teams started to look at me. I got a little bit of support from Thomas Ramsbacher at that time, he worked for the team that Ken Roczen was riding in. I was riding with the same design and he helped me a little bit with some things. That’s where I started to realise that my dream which I had as a kid already could actually come true.”How easy is it to become a professional motocross rider in Switzerland?“It’s actually the worst country to live in to do something like this because professional sport doesn’t really exist in Switzerland. The main thing is school, work, make some kind of apprenticeship. So that’s what I also had to do. I went to school normally, when I was 85s. I just missed a couple of days going to the European championship races, but I had to do every exam, every single thing for school. I either had to do it before or after; it all had to be done exactly like a normal student. “I went to school until 15 then I started an apprenticeship to learn a job as a poly-mechanic in Switzerland. It’s like CNC drilling, milling, making programs for CNC machines, producing parts, that sort of thing. actually, until my first full GP. Switzerland. I could have said maybe ‘I’m not going to do it,’ but once I stop my motocross career I wouldn’t That’s what I did from 16 until I was 20 That’s how it works in 23TEAM SUZUKI RACING NEWSThat’s how the have anything. Of course, maybe I never go back there or I find a job somewhere in the motocross industry, but first of all you never know and it’s always good to have a secondary background somewhere.”Even with school, you still did well with your motocross career and it was your second overall at the 125 Junior World Championships where you got a bit more recognition. Talk about how that affected your career?“It affected it quite a bit actually. I struggled a little bit in my first 125 year. That was the year where the European 125s raced at the same GPs as the main classes. I remember showing up in Mantova, I think 2010, when they started to do this. I think 100 riders showed up. I was like, wow! I go to qualify and I was really little still, I think 16 years old or something, or 15 even, and I just tried to qualify. I did it actually. I finished both motos around 20th position. I remember Jordi Tixier won the title this year and he even lapped me there. So that’s how it all began. It was like a learning process. end of the season I think I finished around fifth, and the year after I got third overall in the championship. So that’s how I made it step-by-step and all of this just combined with all more school work.”In that Jlike Tim Gajser who’s now won two world titles and Joey Savatgy, who’s won Supercross races in America. How cool is it to look back on that race and see how well you did and where the path can take you?“Yeah, it is really cool to watch back. Like when I saw also Savatgy I think I remember that guy. Then I saw him showing up in Pro Circuit in America winning races. I was like, that’s the guy I actually beat in a moto. So it’s really cool to see that where we are now, where we’ve been back then and stuff like this, but the past is the past. It’s nice to talk about it, but I think we’ve got to look at the future and what is going on now.”We managed it well. By the WC race you were up against riders In 2011, Jeremy Seewer Thnished third in the EMX125 class behind Tim Gajser and Simone Zecchina.A 9yr old Jeremy Seewer, racing in the 2003 Dutch International Motocross event in Overloon.A red-plated Seewer at a Swiss Championship race in 2004.2017 Issue #1 - Summer“MY DAD WAS RACING SUZUKI ALSO ALMOST ALL HIS CAREER. HIS BIGGEST IDOL WAS ROGER DECOSTER, SO THAT’S WHY HE ENDED UP ON SUZUKI”
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