work with [ Spain ’ s ] Dani Pedrosa . “ At the end of 2014 , KTM approached me to come and work there . They were just starting to work on their MotoGP project , and they wanted me to join that . But 2015 was too early to get completely involved , so I did one year as track support for their Moto3 project , working with Miquel Olivera and Brad Binder . “ From 2016 , I have been working as a Crew Chief in KTM ’ s MotoGP project , 2016 with Mika Kallio and since 2017 with Pol Espargaro .”
MISSING NEW ZEALAND Trevathan and his family fly back to New Zealand whenever time allows it and he says he does miss his homeland . “ New Zealand is a fantastic place . Just that for me , too far away from the rest of the world to do this type of job , the travelling would kill me . Plus , having a Dutch wife and kids , I really feel good here now . For sure we don ’ t come home often enough , it ’ s just with having more and more races , the season gets longer and longer , and then to put another long trip on the end of it , just becomes too much . “ Also the kids are in school and at Christmas time , they only get two weeks off , so you would have to take them out of school , so for sure doing that every year would be too much . We visited New Zealand this last December and January for one month and loved it .”
COVID AND 2020 With MotoGP on hold and the KTM race headquarters in Munderfing closed , Trevathan had to spend nearly four months in Coronavirus COVID-19 lockdown . Then he learned Espargaro had received an offer and would be defecting from KTM to Honda in 2021 , where Espargaro would be set to become Marc Marquez ’ team-mate in the Repsol Honda garage . But Trevathan ’ s focus clearly remains on what can be salvaged of the 2020 calendar .
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