Now 100% fit and ready to rumble Osborne showed a glimpse of his speed yesterday at the opening round of the Maxxis British Motocross Championship. Here is a quick interview with the MX2 class winner.

MXlarge: Zach, congratulations on yesterday, well done. Did you like the new format of three 20 minute motos?

Osborne: I think the format is good; I enjoyed the 20 minutes motos all day long. I think it’s really good for the crowd, I mean they get to see six motos in a day. Maybe if I had a bad third moto I wouldn’t have been very pumped about it, but it all went okay. It’s a good change and will liven up the middle of the season, it won’t get boring.

MXlarge: Can you explain your three motos for me?

Osborne: First race I had a decent start and was right in there, but I got really bad arm pump from not racing in a while and haven’t been on the bike for a while. I went backwards a little bit in that race. The second race I had a better start and I was in there and I took my time and made some passes and got into the lead and won it. The third race I had a really bad start and was 15^th or 20^th and worked my way up to 8^th or 10^th on the first lap and picked guys off every lap until I got into the lead. I then pulled a gap and just held it.

MXlarge: You are a two time Grand Prix winner and obviously have an advantage over your competition in the British series, would you say that?

Osborne: I wouldn’t say that, it’s early in the season and everyone is way off their best form, but me also, I am way away from my best. I feel good in the championship and want to be in contention for winning it. Having a crappy end of the season last year everyone was counting me out, but I have been doing my thing in the winter with Kenneth Gundersen and we are working on the same goal.

MXlarge: What disappointed you about yesterday?

Osborne: My starts were not that good, I am normally a good starter and I had pole from superpole, but I never got a holeshot, that was my biggest disappointment, I didn’t expect to win, I thought I would get in there and get some good points, at the start of the day I didn’t think I would win it. For the results I had I am happy with that.

MXlarge: So what do you have coming up before Bulgaria?

Osborne: I am going to Belgium and France to do some riding, and then I will do the second round of the British Championship and then the first Grand Prix. No Internationals, just using the British as a warm-up. I haven’t done too many motos and mainly been doing physical training, so I want some time on the bike and you can’t do that at the races. I will do my riding during the week and have the weekend off.

MXlarge: You like Bulgaria or not?

Osborne: I did okay in Bulgaria last year, it’s hard pack, so that is good for me and I look forward to Bulgaria.

MXlarge: How is it going training with Kenneth Gundersen?

Osborne: Kenneth isn’t with me all the time, he is with my most of the time, we worked out a good partnership and we train with a young rider and also Jason Dougan rides with us a lot. It puts us in a great place mentally and physically does to the job.

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