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Catching Up With Davi Millsaps

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

The Duke has been somewhat of an enigma for the last few seasons. On some weekends he will be the fastest rider on the track, and to see him win really is not much of a surprise. But on other weekends, you would hardly know the Georgian is at the race at all.  However many of those poor performances have been related to lingering injuries that have haunted Davi for a while.  With the new season approaching, Millsaps is back to 100 percent and is ready to start on a new path.  Returning to the Red Bull Honda squad for 2010, Davi is ready to deliver on the promise he has always shown.

Now that you have had some time to recover and look back, how was 2009 for you?

It was not a good year for me. We had the new bike come out and it took awhile to get comfortable on it, and still now I am finding some things that work better on it. I went to a lot of LCQs in Supercross and then got hurt at the second round of the Nationals and missed half the season. I came back and did really good at the end, running eleventh overall, but I still wasn’t too pumped on that as a whole, but it is what it is.

You still had the occasional race where you would have a great ride even though the rest of the year was less than stellar.

Like I said, we had lots of issues to get myself and the bike to work well together. Honda and I have both been working hard to get the bike to work better and see what we can do, and right now I am happy with where it is at. If the track was good, then the bike and I were good and I think that had a lot to do with it. The bike was new and we were still finding out what we would need to do to make sure it would do what we wanted. I’m happy to still be here with the way the bike is now.

You wrapped up everything for your contract pretty early on, right?

Yeah, I have a two year deal and we have everything sorted out. I’m happy to have a job with these guys next year because we can do really good things. I shouldn’t say happy, I should say ecstatic (laughs).

You mentioned that you weren’t very pleased with the bike last year, and that’s something we heard from some other riders. Are the numerous changes made to the bike that makes the 2010 much better than a 2009?

I ran the 2009 bike at the US Open and as soon as that was finished I started to work on the 2010, testing the internals of the suspension, and it was such a better bike so soon that I wouldn’t ride the 2009 anymore. It gets better every week and with just a little more work it’ll be the best bike out there, hands down.

So where are you basing your program and training at for 2010? Are you staying in California or heading back to Georgia soon?....

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