On The Pegs August - 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 8 | Page 74

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would love to have Lance on board, but he’s got something else going on. Then
I’ve got my existing arenacross crew that knows all the setup, knows all about
racing, and are very experienced there. We’ll pick up a few other people. Steve
Travis, the president of Tulsa Trail Riders, is going to come help us. We’ve got a
good crew.
Will you work your arenacross and EnduroCross races together, maybe
have them on back to back weekends?
No. The Kicker arenacross series is a winter event only. We’ve found that with
EnduroCross it’s kind of navigated itself to the summer/fall. I think that it fits
perfect there. You can correct me if I’m wrong, but you get supercross over and
you’re kind of deep into your outdoor motocross series, but enduros seem to
take a break in the summer in a lot of places. So does GNCC. So now, boom, we
pop in. We’re a few summer events. We bleed over into September. Motocross
then is over. Nobody’s doing anything. It’s great. It’s great for the sport because
our goal is by 2020 to be back on TV.
Riders have said the tracks were getting too jumpy, too much like super-
cross. Then there’s always complaints about it being too technical. What’s
your opinion on the right track layout?
I’m going to rely on Eric [Peronnard]. Eric invented the sport and knows what
people want. I know that people voice their opinion one way or the other.
You’ve got to keep in mind a lot of things. One of them is you’ve got to make it
exciting for the fans. [If] you don’t have a base, you don’t have a reason to do