On The Pegs January 2018 - Volume 3 - Issue 1 | Page 111

On The Pegs cause of the two-stroke ere’s a little bit different st to see how he rode and and just gave me another g we were practicing in I couldn’t quite figure out, m I figured it out. I was rt and I wasn’t making it. ng, but he was flying up one of those “less is more” the back tire just slam into tacle. But he was just so ould drive up to the top. ter and get as much lift ossible to get enough to o to watch him just hit any body movement, it e what happens. It felt so So it was something that I we ran into an obstacle like has way more experience been at a level higher than might as well take ad- earn something while he’s un away. ere some sections where vantage and maybe ur-stroke had an advan- ore that way, but with the mooth and the clutches ode Island where every- favors a four-stroke, to be d there proved to me I was Vol. 3 Issue 1 - January 2018 P 111 - RYAN YOUNG - Let’s talk about strategy. Last year you guys rode ahead of Marc Freixa and didn’t even watch him ride. This year you rode with him. You took turns going first. Pat paid more atten- tion to Marc’s riding. Was that a definite strat- egy that you guys changed for this year? We didn’t really change the strategy per se. What we communicated to each other was we can’t do what we did last year. That means a lot of things. It means attitude, 100% effort all the way to the last section, and perhaps watching the scores and watching him ride a few sections. I noticed in Ohio he had bad luck where in one of the sections he cleared a marker but then the sand went down and knocked the bound- ary over, and he ended up getting a five. But he didn’t seem to let it bother him. He came back and won the next day. That was kind of proof right there that his attitude was way better than what it was the year before. Yeah, we almost won that day as well. I think his attitude did carry on a little bit to the next section and he gave away I think at least two points in the next section on the exit. There was just a couple little tiny ledges. I think he had two ones there. But he did maybe have a little tiny hiccup then finished strong that day and did almost have the victory that day as well. But much, much, much better atti- tude than past seasons. He kept his cool and calm. For me as a minder, he was much more enjoyable to work with, keeping his cool all day long and me not having to babysit his temper.