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Interview Friday 24th March 2011 By Geoff Meyer

Pit Beirer was known as a hard charger as a racer and he came very close to winning a World Motocross Championship. As a retired racer he is also working hard on doing everything possible to make KTM the best it can be. Here are some cool comments from Beirer. Same with the Everts comments these are about the HRC team and the present KTM team.
“Now you find something out what is my vision. When I was a kid, just a small boy I used to look into those Honda tents and that was the bench mark. Our riders get angry with me because I wanted our riders to have 1, 11, 111, 2, 22, and 222 in 2010. Back when HRC was the top team they had 1, 3 and 5 as the numbers, it was all about presentation and you knew that team was the one to beat. It is an honor for us if people even think we are anything like that HRC team of the 1980’s. Now with the riders we have and the bikes we have and the technical side we are very much in that direction.
“Of course HRC won many titles in that era, and our big goal was to win the MX1 World Championship, we have some titles in the MX2 class, but we wanted to win the MX1 class and we want to win that title many times. Just like KTM is known in the MX2 class, we want that also in the MX1 class.
“We decided a few years ago that we wanted to achieve and that was be the most powerful team in Motocross and I mean that by having the strongest riders, the best organized and the total picture. To have this great rider’s lineup, it is amazing. I said to Stefan soon after the team was decided that we are close to our end goal, and that goal was World titles in both MX1 and MX2.
“I believe that the personalities are more important than the job they do. If you fit with the group and you are motivated and work hard, I didn’t want the highest working mechanic or rider if he didn’t fit into the team, with my people. I want that everyone is friendly with each other and helpful to each other no matter what ranking they have, be it a rider or a mechanic or anyone else in the team.
“The people are chosen very carefully to make this team a close group. The riders are obviously at the front row, but they need a good team around them. That is what Stefan and I both had in our careers, sometimes you had it and sometimes you didn’t have it.
“We work like that with everyone in the team. If somebody is angry I ask them why you are cranky, I don’t want angry people in our team tent. I think if the riders are confident in the team, then they also feel happy and seem friendlier. I mean riders can ride their bikes all day long, they should be happy.
“As KTM racing we have to thank KTM as a company for giving us a good budget, but our budget has gotten smaller and smaller, but we have better sponsors and partners and the quality now is much higher. We can present a professional team now. That is also how we can make the sport bigger. We need people to know what we are doing and where we are winning.
“If you look at the people involved, people like me, or Stefan of Heinz Kinigadner, we all have really good relationships with people in this sport and that helps our position of course. It’s like a big team in Motocross and you need to work openly, be it a sponsor, rider, mechanic or whatever, I prefer not to have a contract, let them come and work with us and if they like it they can stay, that is my idea about working with people. Nobody has to stay because they are under a contract; they need to want to race here because they like it.
“We have a vision, we all know how hard a motocross rider must work, you know that, I know that and Giuseppe Loungo knows that, you have to ride for 40 minutes with a heart rate of 180, you have to prepare for five months to be ready for the season, there is so much work involved and technology and we can compete with the other sports, but we are working in that direction for sure. It still isn’t easy to find Motocross on television, but without Giuseppe working in that direction and believing it, we wouldn’t even be where we are now.”
 
 
 
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