On The Pegs VOL . 4 ISSUE 11 - NOVEMBER 2020 53
winning it . It ’ s a team event , and racing is never a team sport in a sense . You got a team that helps you and surrounds you , but there ’ s no team aspect to it at all . Once you put that helmet on it ’ s every man for himself . There you got to take it in a little bit different consideration because everybody ’ s collective results is what matters . You can throw it away for the whole team if you mess up going for the win personally . Don ’ t get me wrong . I would love to win the race , win the event , but we ’ ll prepare when ready .
So Krue is racing now . What ’ s your philosophy ? Are you going to be hands-off ? How did your dad treat you ?
No . He never really pushed me . He just kind of let me do my own thing . Honestly , you always want better for your kids . The most important thing is you always want everything for your kid and see them do well , but you got to let them be themselves . He loves riding and being around the bikes and stuff , but at this moment he ’ s not super hard core into the racing part of it . He ’ s having fun . He didn ’ t race the last race because he didn ’ t want to . Most parents will do anything for their kids except let them be themselves . I ’ m just going to let him be himself . If he wants to race , then we ’ ll do that . If he doesn ’ t , then oh well . It ’ s not the end of the world . I feel bad for him in a way because I feel like if he does go this direction that there ’ s going to be a lot of pressure to follow in my footsteps in some way . That ’ s not an easy task to take on , especially this day and age with how good everybody is getting , even from a young age . The kids are faster nowadays and the whole sport is progressing quite a lot .
Will you still be under contract with KTM and doing stuff for KTM ? I ’ m still a full-time racer next year . I ’ m retiring from GNCC . Then after ’ 21 , I ’ ll be done with racing full-time as a professional . I ’ ve got nothing left to prove in GNCC and off-road . I ’ ve got some bucket list items that I want to do .
Since we are talking about retirement , do you have any thoughts of Ryan Dungey talking about coming back ?
I don ’ t know Ryan super well . The year he retired I was contemplating doing the same thing . I feel like his wasn ’ t a thought-out decision . Maybe it was a little in the moment and not doing it for the right reasons , maybe . I haven ’ t talked to him about it . I can only have an opinion . Maybe it holds some truth to it or not . There ’ s nothing that replaces that feeling of winning and that feeling of competing at the highest level . I think if he wants to come back , I think it ’ s going to be