David Bellego: I’m here to win!
Frenchman, David Bellego, is 26 years old and has raced all over Europe this season, which is also his first in the SEC competition.
But in Round 2 of the SEC in Torun he broke his collarbone. We caught up with him as he started his comeback almost a month after his accident.
First we asked him how a man from a country more well known for football and cycling got into motorsports.
“Speedway is not famous in France, for sure,” he said, “But I started racing when I was 16 on a 500cc as my Dad got me into it”.
10 years later and has had his first season in Sweden when he signed with Alvesta Masarna, the same club and SEC rival, Antonio Lindbäck. Bellego has enjoyed this new experience, “I like to ride against the top riders to keep progressing and improve,” he said about his 12 matches in Elitserien.
And when it comes to the European Championship, the Frenchman has clear aims, “I worked hard to get into SEC series and my goal was to make the top five. Of course, now it won’t happen due to the injury,” he added disappointedly.
He had a fantastic opening Round in Gustrow when he scored eight points, the same amount as Nicki Pedersen and Kacper Woryna who are in the top five after Round 3 in Vojens. But the crash in Torun changed all that.
“I went back to France and I had to try to not move my arm too much so the collarbone could heal up fast, but of course after 10 days I went back running and exercising it so I did not lose too much strength”, said the 26-year-old about his recovery.
But now, thankfully, it is back to the business of racing, “I know what I can do a bike and I am working hard on my side, plus I have good equipment and good engines. I work a lot with my mechanic to get better every time we get on the track,” he revealed.
Despite the injury, Bellego was the top rider in the Polish Liga 2 division with an incredible heat average of 2.473 with his team PSZ Poznan.
He enjoys racing in Poland and has not been at Chorzow before, “but the track looked really good on TV so I’m looking forward to racing there”.
And his aim? “In the league we are teammates but at the individual meetings there’s no friends. We all are here for same thing - to win!”
