The greatest Grand Prix rider of all time, Stefan Everts gives us his opinion on the team change of Jeffrey Herlings and his performance in Argentina last weekend. A 10 time world champion and his former understudy, Herlings a five time world champion. Both legends of the sport, but what does The Goat think.

"I mean," Everts said. "Starting with the change to Honda, so late in your career, when you have been so good with KTM. I think they took good care of him, the number of times they made his contract open and gave him a new contract, on that side, KTM was really respectful to him. To make the change now, is it the money that counts, that is the most important thing for Jeffrey. Honda has always been a great bike and if I speak for myself, that was also my dream, to race for Honda, but I am coming from the era of the 1980s, when Honda was far ahead of everybody. It is a strange move, but maybe Jeffrey wanted to ride a different bike in a different team and a new motivation. He might want some more championships, but in Argentina, he looked good, he didn’t need to adapt to the bike too much. I saw he did 100 hours on the bike already and he was riding all day long and that is him, that is how we know Jeffrey, he is a bull on the bike."

And on his performance in Argentina

"I thought he would struggle a bit more, but when I saw the track in Argentina, I thought this will give Jeffrey an advantage, because it was slightly sandy and okay on Sunday it was harder and rough, but it was good for Jeffrey. He had to fight for it, Vialle, who impressed me a lot, he was strong and surprised me the most, even more than Jeffrey. Jeffrey is the fittest of all of them and we saw that when he passed Febvre and Vialle late in the races and that allowed him to win the two motos. The rest of the field is fast, and I think when the tracks are not physically harder, it will be tougher for him, but he is a killer hey."

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