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the gate and you’re just slamming people, doing whatever you can to get to the
front as quick as you can. With rally, it’s different. It’s like you against terrain. It’s a
race within yourself to do your best. You have respect within your competitors. It
doesn’t matter what team you’re on. There’s always somebody there to pick you
up when you crash. One day this guy Van Beveren and Santolino were fighting on
the road going home, and then the next day Van Beveren is picking up Santolino
off the ground and helping them put him in the helicopter. So it’s just a different
mentality and vibe and more respect, I would say. That part’s really cool about the
community and how they approach racing here.
Do you have any desire to race ISDE? I know that Antti Kallonen as thrown
around your name as a potential member.
Yeah. I’ve been invited the last two years to go. The first year Honda told me
no, and then the second year my boss for Husky told me no. So this year I have a
different boss. Maybe it’s in the cards or not, I don’t know. My deal ends in Novem-
ber for rally, so I don’t know what lies in the future for me. I would love to do rally
some more. I didn’t really know where to go, but I would love to continue with
this program. If that’s the case, it’s kind of like you need to specialize in one thing. I
don’t know if Six Days would be there, but I would love the opportunity to go one
day. I think I would be good at it just from my experience with sprinting, with mo-
tocross, and then the long days of riding this rally. I think it would be a good com-
bination. I think I would be pretty competitive, but you never know until I would
try it. I would love to do it one day.
Any chance you’d ever come back east and ride a GNCC or a sprint enduro?
I would love to do a sprint enduro before I do GNCC. I would get smoked at the
GNCC. Not that that would deter me from going, as long as I would have fun. I just
don’t know how much fun I would have, where the sprint enduros I think I would
love. I’ve done some of those near my house in Texas and they have a small se-
ries with TORCS, the Texas series. They’re awesome. I love them. If I could do that,
that’s what I would choose to do. But it’s far for me to drive and I’m racing a lot all
over the place. Maybe one day. n
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