Line Dam has risen to plenty of challenges racing WMX 2019 showing speed to race amongst top 5 currently standing 9th Overall heading into Final Round at MXGP of Turkey in little under 2 weeks time.
For Line, results haven’t really matched her expectations of the Honda rider’s ability given #131 puts all heart into racing, no matter who’s on the gate.
WMX Round 4 at Imola was no exception, with Line caught up in hole-shot crash, which not only meant not able to finish race, but fired up determination levels to finish Race 2 in 9th.
As Line says: ‘My weekend at Imola was definitely difficult. In practice and Qualifying I felt okay on the track, but I’m not a big hard-pack fan, especially not with the big ruts’.
‘Before the first moto I felt like they destroyed the track, because it was so muddy and slippery, it wasn’t even fun. I crashed in the first turn and broke my clutch so I wasn’t able to finish the race. This was my second DNF this year so it was really bad. Sunday I got a good start in the second moto and was running 4th and 5th but I couldn’t find any rhythm and I fell back to 9th. Not happy at all’.
With known speed to race up-front, Line settles for building confidence, self-belief and what Kiwi’s call ‘needing a bit of mongrel’ during race-time. With learning curves aside, the likeable Dane sets her own bench-mark high, though needs to enjoy the whole experience to truely gain satisfying race results.
# 131: ‘The results mean that I have got the speed to be up in the front, but I also expect much more of myself after I have been showing these results. So sometimes I’m hard on myself because I want to be in the front every time. But I just struggle to find my rhythm and confidence at every race’.
Having achieved 5th in WMX Opening Round at Lommel in Race 2, 6th at Round 2 Agueda in Race 2 and 6th at Round 3 Loket Race 1, Line can bank on making it happen when it counts.
#131: ‘I want to show good speed and confidence. And hopefully the results will show where I feel like I should be’.
Words: Sharon Cox.
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