De Coster and Everts interview...Great History

While attending the Monster Energy United States Grand Prix back a dozen or so years ago, I got to organize an interview with two of the true greats of the sport Roger De Coster and Stefan Everts.

Between them 15 World Motocross Championships and 137 Grand Prix victories, not to mention at the time both are playing leading roles in management of the World effort of the Red Bull KTM Factory team. I would like to take you back to that special day for me.

De Coster and Everts

Just meters to my right was possibly the most charismatic World Motocross Champion of all time Roger De Coster. He was going over some important information with some of the KTM mechanics. A little further away the greatest Grand Prix rider of all time Stefan Everts was talking to his riders, preparing them for the USGP.

Since I was a boy, I had wanted to interview De Coster and while I have done the odd short interview with “The Man” I had never really done anything that would ask him about his career, nothing really in-depth. For whatever reason I always found him to be a little unapproachable and I didn’t want to waste his time with silly little interviews.

On the other hand, Stefan Everts I have known for around 20 years, and while at first, we didn’t have much contact at the peak of his career I penned Stefan Everts columns for magazines and actually became good friends with the GOAT of Grand Prix Motocross.

Now was my chance to sit down with both and ask them questions about each other, their greatest moments and the circuit that inspired them both to unbeatable success.

For the rest of this very interesting interview go to www.mxlarge.com