On The Pegs November 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 11 | Page 103

On The Pegs
Vol. 4 Issue 11 - November 2019
103
you have a very unconventional contract with Red Bull. How do you decide
which events you’re going to do for the year?
It has a lot to do with them. We’re looking for high-profile events. I can’t be out
there doing local races and have the story work because we’re doing this video
series that is kind of highlighting the schedule I’m doing. So, looking for all the
high-profile events, it’s really up to them. I have a little bit of say. I can call them up
and say, “Hey, this looks like fun. What do you think about this?” But in the end, it’s
all up to them. It’s been fun kind of putting this thing together.
How does your contract this year financially compare to other traditional
contracts you’ve had?
It’s still not quite what I made in supercross, but I’m getting a little bit closer.
At the GNCC in Florida, you aggravated your shoulder. From the video, you
suggested that you could do supercross but you couldn’t do GNCC. Could
you tell me which type of racing is more brutal on your body?
GNCC, no doubt about it. Well, that’s if you don’t crash. If you do crash, crashing
in su-percross is much worse. From the GNCC side, especially down there in Flori-
da, it’s just all sand whoops. That’s what hurts the shoulder - is when it pulls; and
every sand whoop you hit, it’s pulling. The shoulder is a little bit better since then,
but there’s some stuff torn in there. To make it perfect again I need to have it fixed.
But I’m too busy rac-ing right now, so maybe this fall I’ll try to get it worked on.
After the Nashville supercross, you said you didn’t feel like you rode well
but you still got an eighth place. Are we going to see you racing some more
supercrosses?
I plan to next year, for sure. I want to. It was fun. It’s not my forte anymore, but I
still felt like I could ride it pretty good. I definitely want to do a few more, I think.
This year you raced Erzberg for the first time. Had you ever visited there
before? How did you prepare for that event?
No, I had never been before. The way I prepared for it was watching a bunch of
videos. But that didn’t prepare me like I needed it to. It looks hard, but when you
get there in person it’s ten times bigger. It was almost like you don’t even recog-
nize the stuff. It def-initely opened my eyes to what’s possible on a dirt bike. Those
dudes that are good at that stuff are just amazing. But now that I know what to
expect, even though it was probably the hardest race I ever did, I do want to go