On The Pegs May 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 5 | Page 103

On The Pegs
Vol. 4 Issue 5 - May 2019
103
So when you’re racing are you also scanning for other lines and trying to
figure out if that’s a faster line?
Yeah, someone who has really good lines is Josh Strang. The first two rounds
were sandy so you could kind of see the lines. I’d still be going straight and he’d
be already turning for the turn. It’s crazy to see the different lines. You try to
watch to see what those guys are doing. If you come in and they beat you, then
be like, “All right. The next time I need to do his lines,” or whatever. So then you
kind of see the tire marks. But it will be a little tough when you get in dirt because
you won’t be able to see the lines that much. It’ll be tough, but I feel like I try to
take everybody’s lines into consideration each round and learn from them for
sure.
In South Carolina at the end of the woods test, there was a place that kind
of was an S-turn and you were jumping across it. Is that something that you
saw when you were racing or had you found that before?
No, just something you pick up when you’re racing. You pick up little things
here and there. You’re carrying so much momentum on these things, sometimes
you miss something and it works or you miss something and it doesn’t work. You
always got to pay attention. You always got to be on your toes to try to find that
little second. At the last round, I think there was a couple tests four of us were all
within the same second. It’s just a little thing. If you dab your foot or something
you could go from winning a test to fourth or fifth. The racing is really tight this
year.
So back to the GNCC, you said you’re not 100% the first hour and a half.
Do you think you’re like 90%?
Yeah, you’re still pushing the envelope. Some races are different. Some races
I feel like if I get out front or if Kailub gets out front we kind of try to get away
from everybody and we kind of push a little bit. I know some races we’re 100%
the whole three hours, and then some you can’t do that the whole three hours. I
think we know what races we can do it at and we kind of pace ourselves and then
go hard at the end. I know last weekend I was maxed out the last couple laps. It
was a long day. It was like a seven-lap race and we ended up racing over three
hours. Got to play your cards right and be there at the right time, for sure. n