Joel. I hope you read this as we are big fans of yours from the UK. I see you are not riding for Suzuki next year, why don't you ask HUSABERG to provide a race team for 2006. It would be fantastic to see you back on the bike you won 3 world titles on.
Tout à fait Midwest. Je pensais à cela ce week-end en regardant le grand-prix. Je pense que c'est une excellente idée; je pourrai ainsi resortir mon T-shirt "SMETS - HUSABERG". Car je suis un supporter de la première heure. Je pense même pouvoir dire qu'avec mon frère, nous étions les 2 premiers supporters francophones de Joel! Nous le sommes toujours!!! Je me souviens très bien de la première saison de Joel sur cette Husaberg n°4, de son petit camion bleu, de Ludo son grand mécanicien, ... Que de bons souvenirs.
Quand j'entends certains journalistes dire que le grand Joel est fini; je dis non! C'est lui le grand champion! Et il le restera!!!
As I see it, there are still a lot of guys who would like to see our "Flemish Lion" back on the mean machine again ! The problem however is ' like Joël said already, they do not want the big bikes in the GP's anymore. They only want to ride around lie a bunch a pussy's with little 450 bikes. When there would still have been a genuine WC with real big four strokers , he would be around for a number of years you wouldn't believe. Now the problem is that he can not prep himself mentally anymore, he has been trying to come back to his level of 2 seasons ago and he did ! For sure he did ! It only took so lang and now he has the relaps of all these efforts. He would love to go on for another year, but when his riding doesn't improove over the next month, I think he will call it a day and put a stop to his excellent carreer .
