On The Pegs December 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 12 | Page 80

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TAYLOR ROBERT
Taylor Robert won the E2 class and was the top-finiishing American. The first
two days were a little disappointing for Robert and the team since our World Tro
phy Team was sitting in second place despite having three riders in the top three
overall.
“It was a little frustrating,” said Robert. “We had always talked about that. Like, i
we can get our three guys in the top five, we’ll for sure win. And then that first da
we did that and we weren’t leading. We were like, well, I guess we’re going to nee
to step it up even more.
The first two days the course was sandy, and Aussie Daniel Sanders was klilling
it in the sand. However, a chance of scenery, starting on day three, turned the tid
for Team USA.
“The first two days were honesty pretty sandy. There were two tests that were
really sandy and big sand berms. Then there was another two tests that were kin
of hard-pack and rocky and really off-camber. Then days three and four we saw
the complete opposite. We had one test that was up in the mountains that was
just nasty, sloppy, muddy, slimy, really slippery. Then that same day when we cam
down off the mountain into the valley there was a hay field that was super fast, s
per dry, really a lot of loose rocks. So you had to be really adaptable not just from
day to day, but even throughout the day, because it’s not like this day is going to
be muddy and this day is going to be dry. It was changing throughout the day ev
ery day. I feel like we all rode really well. We weren’t the fastest guys out there. Ha
off to Daniel Sanders, because he was riding phenomenal. We didn’t really have