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Romain Febvre - King Of Loket

Jul 16

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If ever there was a King of Loket, its Frenchman Romain Febvre. The Kawasaki factory rider, who is making his return to racing this weekend has won the MXGP class, three times at the Czech Republic Grand Prix, the first time in 2015, his championship winning season and his last some eight years later in 2023. He also won there in 2019.

Not as impressive, but impressive nevertheless, Febvre has also finished the Sunday night in Loket with 5-10-4-1-3-6-4-1-5-19-1 overall results. So, he is on most occasions around the sharp end of the points. He has also won five Sunday motos at Loket.

Now, with the MXGP championship battle heating up, with Jeffrey Herlings warming up and gaining points on Tim Gajser and Jorge Prado, you have to think that Febvre might play a major part in helping the Dutchman to close that gap a little quicker.

Funnily enough, Herlings talked of his like for the Frenchman recently. Maybe mind games, but this is what he said a handful of GPs ago, when he was 65 points down on series leader Tim Gajser (he is now 51 points down).

“I think I am like 65 points behind now,” Herlings said. “But you see with Febvre now, and I hope he is okay, because I really like Romain. I have battled him in the Dutch races, I battle with him in GPs, and he deserved another World title before he retires. I feel bad, because he deserves another championship and time is running out with his age, I think he is 32 or 33 or something, but I am gutted for him, but it’s part of racing and anything can happen in this sport. You can see how quickly it happens.”

We all know the relationship between Febvre and Jorge Prado has often been a rocky one and would the Kawasaki rider decide to help out his Dutch friend? Who knows. What we do know, despite being out for some time with a thumb injury, Febvre will be comfortable in Loket and might just cause guys like Gajser, Prado and Herlings problems.

Will he be happy to take points from either guy, or course he would, as the Frenchman is motivated to win GPs and that hasn’t gone away. Not hard to forget he was building momentum and his last GP in France, he actually won until they took it from him due to a yellow flag drama, so he might return with that confidence and we all know he was pissed off getting his home GP taken from him, and no fault of his own.