the legend’s timeline 1991 5 Grand Prix Victories 125 cc Suzuki 1995 5 Grand Prix Victories 250 cc KAWASAKI 1996 5 Grand Prix Victories 250 cc HONDA 1997 8 Grand Prix Victories 250 cc HONDA 2001 7 Grand Prix Victories 500 cc YAMAHA 2 S72 MAGAGINE 10 x Welcome worldchampion To the S72 Magagine 2002 4 Grand Prix Victories 500 cc YAMAHA 2003 18 Grand Prix Victories + 9 x MXGP + 9 x mx2 MXGP STEFAN EVERTS YAMAHA in this magazine I’d 2004 like to take you on a trip trough my 7 Grand Prix Victories career and my MX1 new passion after YAMAHA motorcross, my S72 liquors. 2005 8 Grand Prix Victories MX1 Dit magazine kan je ook online in het YAMAHA Nederlands lezen via deze link: www.s72gin.com/magagine FOLLOW US ON facebook.com/s72gin 2006 instagram.com/s72gin youtube.com/S72GinByStefanEverts EDITORIAL 14 Grand Prix Victories EDITOR Stefan Everts ART EDITOR Thomas | duckface.be MX1 CONTRIBUTOR Cindy Cravillon IMAGE CREDITS: Gino Maes, Plons, Gary YAMAHA Freeman, Mikkel Wendelboe. Contact & Advertising: [email protected] Issue 2020 3 Harry Everts, Stefan Everts and Liam Everts Lummen, Belgium, 2017 Picture: Gary Freeman Jef Teuwissen Harry Everts 4 S72 MAGAGINE 250 cc class for the first time, at The name Everts at the back of my competition shirt and About Stefan that time I was 2.5 years old. I can the performance pressure that I had imposed on myself still vividly remember the world were a heavy burden on my shoulders for years. My Birthday titles he won in ‘79, ‘80 and ‘81 in father’s comments about my training sessions and races MY ROOTS AS 25 November 1972 the 125 cc class. If you have a were plain to say the least. I can therefore not remember Birth Place father who in his career achieved for a moment that he had no comment or criticized my Bree, BE 4 world titles and 2 victories for performance. Even though I won a Grand Prix that day, A PROFESSIONAL Location the Belgian team during the my father had always seen something that I had done Lummen, BE Motocross of Nations, that can wrong or that could have been better. Only when I also Length be a curse or a blessing for a had 4 world titles in my name I gradually felt the pressure 1m81 child. In my case it has turned fading away and I got better season after season. ATHLETE. Weight out to be a blessing. 79kg Eye Colour STEFAN everts WHETHER I WOULD HAVE BUILT A Brown SUCCESSFUL CAREER AS A MOTOCROSS Married to To match the performance of RIDER WITHOUT MY BIG EXAMPLES, Kelly Tureluren your father or to do better has been my motivation from a very WILL ALWAYS REMAIN AN UNANSWERED Children QUESTION young age to practice the moto- Liam (°2004) and cross sport. I had to and would Mylee (°2011) follow in my father’s footsteps Hobbies and I wanted to at least match Music, Film, his list of achievements or do Drumming better. Ever since I was a child, I Jef teuwissen well be there. Jef must have loved to ride a motorcycle and it .been most proud of his was my big dream to become a As a child I first came into selection for the Belgian world champion, but there was contact with the motorized team in ‘69. In addition to nothing to suggest that there sport by the late Jef great riders such as Roger was a talent in me. Teuwissen, an uncle of my De Coster, Joël Robert and father who was bitten by the Sylvain Geboers, Jef was one My first meters I ever rode with a motocross microbe. After the of the founders of the motorcycle, by the way, better amateur work, his Motocross of Nations victory produced beautiful images that career got more important at Farleigh Castle in Britain. It are burned on my parents’ retina with the title of Belgian is mainly his last racing years forever. A pleated front fork and champion 500 cc in ‘65 and and the period after he a smack against a concrete wall ‘67. 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Everything was write down with absolute titles and 2 victories My father Harry for the Belgian team dominated by motocross certainty is the fact that without sport, so I grew up along the and the American the harsh approach of my father, during the Motocross fence of the tracks and in the Johnny O’Mara who nevertheless laid the foun- of Nations, that can paddocks in Belgium, MX rider with the dation of who I eventually Europe and far beyond. In greatest influence became, I could never have be a curse or a 1975 my father won the title on my career achieved the fantastic figures on blessing for a child. of world champion in the My father Harry my list of achievements. Issue 2020 5 250 cc class for the first time, at The name Everts at the back of my competition shirt and that time I was 2.5 years old. I can the performance pressure that I had imposed on myself still vividly remember the world were a heavy burden on my shoulders for years. 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I had to and would My 16 year old son Liam, just like me, got follow in my father’s footsteps the motocross sport from the womb. and I wanted to at least match History has already repeated itself to a his list of achievements or do large extent because Liam, too, started better. Ever since I was a child, I riding a dirt bike as soon as he could walk. I Jef teuwissen well be there. Jef must have loved to ride a motorcycle and it see myself in my son, who in turn follows in .been most proud of his was my big dream to become a my footsteps. For a third generation of As a child I first came into selection for the Belgian world champion, but there was Everts, the expectations of the public are contact with the motorized team in ‘69. In addition to nothing to suggest that there naturally high. 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