I'm wondering what you're gonna ask me today.
Don't start with how was your race,
cause I throw my my microphone away.
I start riding a bike because, my brother luca is six years older than me
he was already racing a bike,
I just grew up into his life you know,
my parents decided to buy a PV50,
their intention was not to put me on immediately,
but as soon as I saw it,
I started to cry, because I wanted to try,
from that day I started immediately without training wheels
during the week and we were going racing with my brother
I was just riding around the paddock the whole day and coming back to the camper only one
had an empty fuel tank.
When I was 15 at my very first year in the world championship,
I got the chance to race for Yamaha in a satellite team,
((Picking her lines nice and easily with Kiara Fontanesi))
My dad at the beginning he was not like very sure,
because he didn't want to put me in the hands of somebody else and
he also was not sure if he wanted me to ride the world championship
I said we have to take this opportunity and luckily we did.
That year I won my very first moto with a one to five in Europe
and since then we saw that I had the possibility to
you know, one day fight for the World Championship.
After the first year we decided to do it on our own,
we built our own team,
kept going with the MX Fonta racing team
since then to now.
A big reason of why I could achieve so much during the year is because
I always had a great team, my family,
my dad knows perfectly how to put the bike in term of suspension
and my brother always did the electronic,
he always been a rider and you know what I need
everything was managed by us and everything was going around me, my races and my results.
My family is my first supporter and they walk with me in the same direction
I mean i trust them 100%.
my very first championship win has been taken in England
for sure it's something that will last forever in my heart
already one was already something great and to win four in a row was incredible
((the four-time world champion, Kiara Fontanesi and Yamaha, World Champions again))
A girl to succeed in motocross need a really strong mind,
be talented and of course need to have a physical condition which is very good
I think my strength point also on races my head
like I'm mentally really really strong,
when you're really tired and you still have to push
because you need to be on a certain time or a certain repetition
it's there where your mind needs to come out and say you can do it you know
I think also i'm a talented girl because, when I was a kid, I never really was training
and I was still winning and i just learned how to make a good corner or how to you know
wait for scrub or keep the bike low in the gems
and if you are able to do that without nobody telling you it's because you have your talent
inside yourself
nobody ever teach me riding a bike no one
it's something that i think i have in my blood
The reason why I came back after the sixth time I won is because,
I only had one dream left which was to win a title being a mom
for sure i want to prove myself that even after a pregnancy
I can still be the fastest and still be at the top and fighting for the world championship,
so as soon as I could one month after I gave birth I was back on the bike
((only 12 points separate the top four riders Duncan, Papenmeier, Fontanesi and Van De Ven))
and I was still fast you know,
I mean I needed time to be back at my level, but it means that i was ready to participate
and i was training almost every day
I was lining up behind the gate in Matterley Basin 2020 only three months after i gave
birth and that for me was already a big achievement because my mind always wanted to be back but
you never know until you get there
((third overall this weekend, the KTM of Kiara Fontanesi))
and when i could finish on the podium already at the first round was just really amazing
for me and something that i was just like speechless
The season this year is going very well i've been very consistent apart the first round
where i had a bad luck and i lost a lot of points,
but for the rest i've been on the podium
Every round, I won three or four motos in Turkey which was very good four motos very
intense the old four finished almost the same you know apart the first one i think that
has been one of the greatest battle i've had there was a proof to myself and to my family
that if i say something i can reach it
We don't prepare strategies before the season especially in these couple years you know
with the COVID situation
you never know when you're gonna race,
if the race is going to stay there,
so difficult to make plans.
What I do and it's what I always did it's to focus each motos in what i have to
do so step by step not thinking on the final result not thinking on i have to do that instead of that
The way you train has changed
before it was more about riding and racing
now i wouldn't be so good if i would just ride a bike and not training physically
There's not a specific area where you train it's just about whole body because on the
bike you move everything
like really everything so
it's important to be fit enough to try to avoid the injuries
when i started which is not ages and ages ago
but the bike has changed a lot and
we have ECU, traction control things like that that you can work so much on that
and when i start i didn't have all that so everything is developing year by year
so then you need to be always at the same level
inside myself i always want to be the best in everything i do and i give everything i have
if you want to become a world champion you need to work hard
I wish that I could have had the possibility to have somebody like me back in the days
telling me how i should train what i should do
that's why we decided to give the opportunity to the others
exactly what i didn't had when i was younger
this is basically why we opened the KF8
Everything that i do how i became a champion
how i kept being a champion
how i could take a year off have a baby come back work hard and be back at the top
has something to do with the academy
because our academy is based on our experience
This is what we want to give to the young people that comes to train to be able to teach
them
that you need to want it in your mind
you need to work hard be consistent
and what i did coming back
you are more trusted if you have a story to tell and to prove
than if you have never did something in your life
i think this is really a big part of our trust in the academy.
My parents they thought that I would stop one day
because i'm a girl and they said okay she would be interested in something else
but in the end now i'm still here racing and basically all the families involved in the
team
probably something that nobody would have ever told
I feel like wow i'm 27, I won six times the world championship, I had a baby and I'm still
there at the top of the world
it means that i'm still able to do what i'm doing, becoming a mom doesn't mean that you
need to sit home and stop living
((here we are temperatures 16 degrees barely a cloud in the sky over the Dolomite mountains))
((most picturesque race track that we have in Europe possibly))
((There is Kiara Fontanesi starting on pole position, as she so often does))
((Fontanesi upside down at the top of the hill!!))
((has that pretty much decided the championship?))
I already forget about what happened because it's not something that you need to think
about because it's not that i've been doing mistakes
it's something that happened to me for no reason i mean like
i just was the unlucky girl on track
I cannot you know, stay still and focus on that because it will take me nowhere
I was fast, I took the pole position at the last round again
so i know i can win
when you lose you lose yourself it's not the team that lose
and i think that's why individual sport makes you also stronger
this that happened this year made me stronger
it's not about winning when you win you don't get stronger
i was really happy to see all the family friends and fans at the end of the podium
i wasn't expecting this at all i mean i was just with my daughter
you know going back to the van
and i was like okay now i need to get changed it was the last race of the year
all of a sudden I turned the corner and I saw all the people
on the line waiting for me and they they even took me and made me jump in the air
there were many people that i didn't know that they were there cheering for me
and that was amazing
I was feeling like i won the championship all of a sudden i was like you know smiling
and crying from joy because i made people proud anyway
this is why I race, I race and I want to win for a moment like this they showed me that
even if i did not win we could still live with moments like this
i'm so happy that i could give everything ahead because nothing more frustrating than
ending a championship
and knowing that you could give more
I gave everything I had and that's why i'm happy anyway
What happened this year was out of my control it was not my year
What happened just made me stronger but i will train and fight again
and I will be back