On The Pegs March 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 3

On The Pegs How much pressure is it riding on a contingency-based type of deal? I still do pretty good with salary, but obviously the contingencies are huge in my program. It’s very rewarding on your good days and it’s devastating on your bad days, which makes me want to do better that much more. I didn’t want to ride for Factory KTM. Their team just doesn’t work with me. The way that they handle situations is far from the way that I would want them handled if I were riding for them. So for me, everything I did, I can look back and I can say, “Man, I wish I would have, or I wish I should have or could have done this.” I had the opportunity. I had the opportunity to go factory, but they weren’t paying enough to make it really any different than doing my own program. Obviously there is still respect be- tween KTM and myself. We still work well together knowing that I’m not on the factory team and knowing that I can still win races. I’m still able to high- light their bike, although I would say it’s very upsetting knowing that there are other guys that are getting basically the same support that I do through KTM with half the results. That’s the upsetting part. I would love it if KTM would step up even more into my pro- gram, but that’s their whole reason is they can’t because I’m not on the fac- tory team. n Vol. 4 Issue 3 - March 2019 P 69 LAFFERTY PRAISES SUMTER EVENT After the race, 8-time national enduro champ MIke Lafferty praised the Sumter event. If there is anyone that knows a good enduro when he sees one it’s MIke! “I can’t believe how good a trail it was for the first four tests. It was really good. They set the track up really good. The club members did a great job. I can’t believe so much new trial early on. The C riders and B riders got to go out on good stuff. Then the not- so-fun stuff was at the end and it was longer. It kind of separates everybody after that, too. I felt great. I think especially with the sign-up ev- eryone was saying, how’s it going to be now? 800 riders within ten minutes. So I think the enduros are strong, so that’s a good thing.” n

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