On The Pegs February 2018 - Volume 3 - Issue 2 | Page 92

On The Pegs
get smoked by those guys in the grass
tracks and stuff. I feel like my strong
point would be the moto style, but you
go over there and those guys are so
much faster. When we come to more of
a technical race and it’s kind of slower, I
feel like I do a little bit better. But I feel
like I haven’t rode that well this year
and still won races. And Stew is back.
He’s riding 100% so it’s cool. I feel like
that’s what makes the championship
a lot better. Both of us can ride really
well in all kinds of conditions.
Talk about your wrist. In Missouri
you said you rode really well, but
that last test was a long one. Was it
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starting to bother you towards the
end?
Yeah, a little bit. The issue I’m running
into is my fingers kind of go numb. I ran
into the issue at the GNCC. That was a
big eye-opener for me when the whole
injury happened. I kind of had to fib
to everybody about how bad it really
hurts. During the week when I’m home,
I try to just play it off with my wife and
my parents. When Timmy calls and asks
how it’s doing I tell him, it’s good. But in
reality it still bothers me a lot. I was just
trying to be tough about it. The injury
is just part of it, I guess.
Do you think riding national en-