Motorcycle racer Zonta van den Goorbergh from Breda became twelfth during the TT van Assen Sunday afternoon. It gives him four points in the world championship in the Moto2. The driver is proud of his good race. “It is very special to perform so strong this weekend and to be close to the head. That makes me a bit emotional.”
The 19-year-old driver from Breda had a tough competition on the TT circuit of Assen. “I had to fight physically hard to ride in points. But if you see so many people in the stands to encourage you, it will make an impression, but also gives you extra motivation,” Van den Goorbergh tells the NOS.
Especially the run -out round after the race impressed the young Bredanaar. “If you worked so hard during the race and you look around you and see everyone clapping and cheering, that is really a very special moment. I don’t think many people will understand how special that feels.”
“I want her to know I think about her.”
The driver was visibly emotional in front of the camera about his performance and the reaction of the Dutch public. But Van den Goorbergh broke his voice when he expressed his thank word to one of his greatest fans: his grandmother. “She is now in the hospital and I want to let me know that I think about her,” the teenager says visibly affected.
In recent years, Zonta van den Goorbergh and the TT van Assen had no happy marriage. “I have never been able to ride a decent home race. There was something every time, or a crash for or in the competition. To just drive out, also to grab points and to be able to drive such a pace during, I am very happy with that.”
“Only losing 8 seconds is really good.”
And there had even been more resident for the Breda motorcycle racer if he had not lost five seconds in the first round, he dropped from his twelfth starting position to eighteenth place. “That was because someone went off and did not look out well when he got up again. But over the entire race I only sustained a total of 13 seconds behind the head. But actually that is only 8 seconds and that is really very good.
It also yielded Zonta van den Goorbergh applause from his team when he came in after the race. That also hopefully provides self -confidence, because the leadership of his team RW Racing GP has said that the Bredanaar should finish more from the front.
The Brazilian Diogo Moreira won the race on the hot asphalt in Drenthe, where the TT celebrates its centenary. He pushed his wheel just a little earlier than the Spaniard Arón Canet, who had driven almost the entire game. For Moreira it was his first GP victory. In addition to Van den Goorbergh, the other Dutchman Collin Veijer also took two points by finishing sixteenth.
