Q:
What are you expecting from your new job as Jorge's team 🌜manager?

Wilco Zeelenberg:
It is a long time since I have been working in the GP paddo🐠ck and it will be a long, demanding and exciting season. To be able to work with the youngest and best tal🧸ented MotoGP rider is like a dream becoming true.

Q:
What are you doing to become familiar with the new bike and MotoGP in gen🐬eral? What are the major diffe🦄rences you'll now have to get used to?

Wilco Zeelenberg:
In my functions a🌊s team manager I n💎eed to know Jorge very well, so I am reading his book and secondly I have been reading the new rule book for 2010 to be exactly aware of the differences between Supersport and MotoGP. So, I read books!

Q:
W💎hen did you first meet Jorge and what were y🤡our impressions?

Wilco Zeelenberg:
I met him a couple of weeks ago for the very first time. He is a very young, intelligent and experienced rider. The first t♕hing I noticed is tha꧟t you do not have to motivate him...!

Q:
What do you think Jorge can achieve this year?

Wilco Zeelenberg:
Jorge is in his third year of MotoGP and he will try to do less mistꦇakes than last year and he will try to be better than last year. Last year he finished second, so this year for sure his goal is the championship.

Q:
Do you plan to slot into the existing team set up or will you introduce﷽ 🅘new working practices?

Wilco Zeelenberg:
First of all I need to commit with the guys to see how they work and I am experiꦯenced enough to see if it is necessary or not. Anyway, I do not expect it is.

Q:
Did you ever get to ride a🔯 MotoGP bike in your capacity as Yamaha test ri🐼der? How easy or difficult was it?

Wilco Zeelenberg:
Lin Jarvis gave me this opportunity in 2003, the year before Valentino came to Yamaha. I rode five laps in Valencia and it was very difficult. I was not able to open the throttle, actually. I was more working to close the throttle, instꦰead of opening it. So it was very difficult.

Q:
What does your riding and racing background mean you can bring to💦 Jorge's side of the garage?

Wilco Zeelenberg:
I think it is very important to know exactly what is going to happen in a couple of hours or in the whole weekend. To learn those expectations you need to have m✅uch experience and that can already change the situation from losing to win. It is difficult to say precisely what it is, but to be aware of what is going to hap🥀pen, that's very important.

Q:
How familiar ꧃are you with all the ♏tracks on the MotoGP circuit?

Wilco Zeelenberg:
I raced on eleven of those tr🦋acks whilst I have never been in six of them, or maybe I have been there but I ⛎have never raced there. Nobody has been in one of them, so I am quite ....

Q:
Give us an idea of how much more complicated the MotoGP bike is compared to the World Supersp❀ort maಞchine you were working with last year.

Wilco Zeelenberg:
The M1 is built for racing and that's a big point. Our Supersport bike last year was a goo༒d bike, but was a production-based bik🐽e and we had to create the racing bike out of it, that makes huge difference.

Q:
You la🌳st r🍃aced in grands prix in 1995. How has the championship changed?

Wilco Zeelenberg:
I think it has changed a lot over the years, especially when you look to the electronics. On the othe🥀r side they have stopped with the 250cc, where I raced in the ꦏ90's. So there have been big changes.